Books Quotes

I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked.

Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.