Books Quotes

I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

I write books to find out about things.

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.