Books Quotes

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.