Books Quotes

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.

When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.