Quotes About Books

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book ' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.

In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people buy the books.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.

Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I'd be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like it quiet.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.

I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.

Libraries raised me.

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.

I formulate my style based on a range of influences from books to films and my moods.

I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.

I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies.