Books Quotes

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

Books always help.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.