Quotes About Books

I will read four or five books at the same time.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

I wish I had more time to read. I do love books.

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.

I wrote 'The Art of the Deal' and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess 'The Art of the Deal' is the best-selling business book of all time.

When it comes time to default, they're not going to remember any of the Republicans' names. They are going to remember in history books one name, and that's Obama.

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.