Books Quotes

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print.

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.