Books Quotes

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.