Books Quotes

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

I don't write books inadvertently.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

I rarely read children's books.

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

We cannot learn men from books.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

People do write books.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.