Books Quotes

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.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

All of my books come from pain.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.