Books Quotes
- Page 20Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.
Mark Millar
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
Evan Dando
In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.
David Icke
People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.
Tom Felton
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
Amy Tan
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Ellen Tauscher
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
John Grisham
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
Salman Rushdie
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.
Sherman Alexie
These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
Kinky Friedman
The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.
Tom Coburn
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.
Thomas Perry
I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
Harvey Pekar
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
Macaulay Culkin
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
John Selden
Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
Jamie Lee Curtis
I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?
Patty Duke
I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.
Anna Paquin
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.
Martin Lewis Perl