Books Quotes

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

I rarely read children's books.

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

We cannot learn men from books.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books.

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.