Books Quotes

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.