Quotes About Books

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.

Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.

Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.

The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.

We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expressed in choirs, because you didn't have to have instruments except your voice.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

That, to me, is the core of fantasy - real people in a crazy environment, dealing with crazy problems. That's what I think the books of 'The Witcher' did really well, and it's what attracted me to them, in the first place.

The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

All literature is gossip.

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.

The inspiration to cook came from my grandmother and my father who were both wonderful home cooks. But I would say I taught myself. You travel, you discover the world, you explore books - it is these things that make a great cook.

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

The first book I remember loving was 'Grug and the Big Red Apple.' The first film I saw in the cinema was 'Grease.'

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a country in love with crime fiction.