Book Quotes

"I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"Who learns most from a good book is the author"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"I'm not too interested in books about India"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"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"

Joan Collins, Actress

"I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book"

John McGahern, Writer

"However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting"

Russell Banks, Author

"The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters"

Ernestine L. Rose

"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television"

John McGahern, Writer

"I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task"

Pierre Loti, Writer

"Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book"

Slick Rick, Musician

"How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years"

Joan Collins, Actress

"With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from"

Shawn Johnson, Athlete

"I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch"

Thurgood Marshall, Judge

"I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me"

David Guterson, Author

"I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go"

Jason Mraz, Musician

"A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Books follow morals, and not morals books"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged"

David Guterson, Author

"The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less"

Nick Rahall, Politician

"Actually, the books were never a planned career path"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"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"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one"

John Irving, Novelist

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