Books Quotes

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.

But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that.

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

I would always want printed books.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.