Books Quotes

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

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.

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.