Books Quotes

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.

When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

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.