Top 1200 Address Books Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

Some books are well-received with critics; other books sell.

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think about books? How will books become meaningful in their lives except as yet another form of digitalized content? A book is not just digitalized content.

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

In the morning, I try to read self-help books and books on meditation.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child - songs and books.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.

I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.