Books Quotes

I write books to find out about things.

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.

I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

The wise are above books.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years.

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.