Top 1200 Beautiful Books Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

The leader who loves books that tell him he is great and right may be worse than the leader who does not love books at all.

Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.

I started my work on a lot of the 'Batman' books. So I've worked on a 'Batman,' 'Spider-Man,' some of the 'X-Men' books.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on.

I collect books - a lot of books.

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.

My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

I'm not setting out to adapt books and work with books, but when really amazing stories come to you in that form, it's really hard to turn away from that.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

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 have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.

I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic—I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.

In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well.

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected on every surface; I believe that somehow they managed to breed

I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film.

I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don't want them to be dated.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

I really like listening to books. I listen to them at twice the speed so I can listen to more books.

Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.