A Book Quotes

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.

I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love.

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books.

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.

Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

A small number of choice books are sufficient.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

Books always speak of other books.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

You don't write a book to show off.