Books Quotes

In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

I am not a fan of books.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.