Books Quotes

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

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

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

I often reread books I have written.

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

I buy way too many books.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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 don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

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.

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

The wise are above books.

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

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

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

I love my books.

The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

All of my books come from pain.

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

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

You know, I don't only play for the record books.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

Read much, but not many books.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

I love comic books. I just do.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.