Books Quotes

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.

I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Next, in importance to books are their titles.