Books Quotes

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.