Book Quotes

"Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things"

"There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books"

Joe Sacco, Journalist

"I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of"

Will Estes, Actor

"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in"

Tracy Kidder, Author

"It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold"

Esther Forbes, Author

"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales"

Carol Ann Duffy, Poet

"Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?"

John W. Foster, Soldier

"I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was"

Cilla Black, Musician

"After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe"

Terry Goodkind, Writer

"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism"

Susan Griffin, Writer

"As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul"

Richard Helms, Celebrity

"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book"

Northrop Frye, Critic

"The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet"

Mary Higgins Clark, Author

"Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema"

Mary Garden

"The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing"

Mariel Hemingway, Actress

"At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam"

Neil Sheehan, Journalist

"First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money"

Jack L. Chalker, Author

"I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time"

Lalla Ward, Actor

"What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation"

Malcolm Gladwell, Author

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

"When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early"

Henry Brooke, Novelist

"She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book"

Liam Gallagher, Musician

"My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you"

Vin Diesel, Actor

"I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that"

Tom Araya, Musician

"Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines"

Judith Krantz, Novelist

"I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights"

Joseph Force Crater, Judge

"Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods"

Jon Voight, Actor

"That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve"

Johnny Ball, Entertainer

"A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern"

W. G. Sebald, Writer

"It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year"

Peter O'Toole, Actor

"I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction"

James Rollins, Author

"I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really"

Rupert Grint, Actor

"With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block"

James Rollins, Author

"In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books"

Paula Danziger, Author

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

Paula Danziger, Author

"I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well"

Kate Seredy, Writer

"I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated"

Glenn Close, Actress

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