Quotes About Books

I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

I think Bob Woodward's books are important books.

It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book and say, 'This is meant to be a funny book,' and we didn't have to make any bones about it.

Never index your own book.

If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.

I always give a little talk before I sign books and ask for questions. I love the Q&A sessions. We have a lot of fun at my book signings. I make sure of that!

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

I read actual books. It's cool to read on a Kindle if that's what you want to do, but for me, I like having a bookshelf.

'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

Now that I have a child of my own, I'm in awe of - and deeply grateful for - the time my parents spent in taking me to bookstores.

Any given day, you'll find me at secondhand bookstores.

I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.