Quotes About Books

I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.

Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing to aim for quality and to take risks.

I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books - and now we have a book out. And all the time, books are prestigious. But there's sort of nothing like having the big hot show on television.

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that people don't write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn't the only way to do it. Once you're writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.

My kids' books all have a darkness to them.

I love David Lynch movies, and I like Haruki Murakami books.

I'm a big fan of David Sedaris; I love all his books and have them all on audio and e-reader, in addition to hard copies.

On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.

My favorite author is David Baldacci; I've read all his books. I even have a picture with Baldacci taken during his book-signing in the States.

My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject.

The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.

There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven't thought were up to scratch.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves dedicated to Scottish authors.

I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.

I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.

But I think you have to accept - as I have accepted - that the demands of TV are different than the demand of book writing.