Books Quotes

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

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.