Quotes About Books

I reread a lot. I must have read 'The Once and Future King,' 'Watership Down' and Mary Renault's 'Theseus' books at least a dozen times each.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.

In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem is resolved.

I develop trust, and I think it's the most important to my growth. If my restaurants are always full and my books sell, it's this trust.

I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.

I write stories, I don't just write rhymes, I write books.

Even in film, books, and music, there's always action - there's always rock and roll. Young people appreciate that kind of experience.

Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.

I've read both books that 'Beautiful Boy' is based on, and I can't wait to see that film. I root for that film.

J. K. Rowling has already got a whole generation reading.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

I think Ruin and Rising' is the best written of the three and the most structurally sound, but each book means something different to me.

Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me.

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

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

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

I was pretty aimless as a youth, especially in Patna. I think reading saved me.

I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

I love writing romance, along with science fiction and fantasy - and my books usually meld all three to some degree.

I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.