Books Quotes

We cannot learn men from books.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books.

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.