Book Quotes

"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"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"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"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"

Chanakya, Politician

"A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"The fans that I have met so far have been nothing but supportive and extremely passionate about the books. I feel so honored to meet all these people. Something like this, which I think is bigger than anyone in the film, it's pretty crazy"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"We shot in a place called Asheville, which is like beautiful, beautiful forests. And then part of it we shot all the reaping stuff, which was just crazy - because the reaping in the book and in the script is such an emotional thing for everyone. It really did feel like that when we were shooting it"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"I feel like the books were just written like a movie. You read it and you can just kind of see everything. Before I went in to read with the director, I read the first book and I loved it. I didn't realize how good the writing was. And then I went in and read with Gary Ross, and that was it"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say"

Italo Calvino, Journalist

"The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books"

Stephane Mallarme, Poet

"So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"Books are humanity in print"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked"

William Shatner, Actor

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"The simplest science book is over my head"

James Merrill, Poet

"I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?"

Denis Leary, Actor

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see"

John Burroughs, Author

"It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"I often reread books I have written"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"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"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use"

John Denham, Politician

"I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; "you should really consider this""

Kenny Loggins, Musician

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