Books Quotes

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

I was into comic books as a kid.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.