Books Quotes

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

I buy thousands of books a year.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

To read too many books is harmful.

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.