Books Quotes

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.

My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.

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

I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.