Quotes About Books

nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read. Elsewhere

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

When I was a kid I read these books, the Redwall books, fantasy books about a bunch of warrior mice, and the mice had this war cry that I always thought was cool: "Eulalia." And like an idiot, that's what I yelled off the Brooklyn Bridge: Eulaliaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

books, i think, are a different kind of time machine. instead of reminding you of a lost world, they create one for you. more personal, more intimate-unlike movies, say, the world you experience while reading a book has been lived and envisioned entirely from the INSIDE, and its contours are yours alone.

For all the self-improvement books I had read, I still wasn't above shallow validation-seeking. None of us were. That's why we were in the game. Sex wasn't about getting our rocks off; it was about being accepted.

As anyone who regularly reads newspapers or true-crime books knows, a significant percentage of violent crime, from kidnappings to shooting sprees, is the result of the frustrated sexual impulses and desires of males.

There were two display windows, one on each side of the door, and in the windows were…well, books. What this street really needed was a bar.

It's like one of those affairs in books, said Bailey disgustedly.Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it. What do you say, Roper? said Alleyn. To my way of thinking, sir, said Sergeant Roper, these thrillers are ruining our criminal classes.

The majority of books about World War I represent its causes as diplomatic, its course as military and its consequences as economic.

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

If you feel like you don't have a choice to write it, write it. If you feel like you do have a choice, then move on, because there are so many books in the world.

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.

I have all of Pu La's books and have reread each and every one of his works, multiple times.

I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.

The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do.

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

'Drawn & Quarterly' has always given me complete editorial control over my books and comics, so any decision about what to include or exclude from the book was my own.

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

I like feel-good fiction and mysteries.

I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about just one that's kind of mysterious and nice. On the other hand, the New York gossip about me was that I'd never write another book. So I thought, 'Well, I will then.'

The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.