Books Quotes

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

I often reread books I have written.

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

If Google Books is successful, others will follow.

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

All of my books come from pain.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.