Quotes About Books

Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to have the time.

I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

Athletics weren't really in the cards in my family - books, not body.

I think books are about people that are retired or at the end of their careers.

I travel a lot for work, so downloading books is easier than carrying them around.

As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.

People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

When I write books, I've learned not to have any expectations that I'm going to change the world.

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

I like all sorts of games that make you think. Chess is one of the games I play a lot, read a lot of books.

My 'Chili Palmer' was my mother. Her name is Carmen Milian, and she's my manager. Before getting into music, we actually educated ourselves, and I went to college for music as a business and learned the business side, and she read a lot of books.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.

I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.

I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write.

We don't have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have 'Amar Chitrakatha,' etc.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

For DC, I'm working on the new 'Red Lanterns' and 'JLA Dark.' Both of these are very different books, which is great for me. I've heard 'JLA Dark' described as a team of people with supernatural powers - but that's only half the story.

In elementary school, I loved the 'Bailey School Kids' series. It was about a group of classmates who would speculate whether adults in their lives were supernatural beings. I read literally every single book in the series.

Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that they exist.

I was lucky enough to go to boarding school for my high school years, and I had all the resources that I possibly could needed - squash courts and every book you ever would have wanted, every art supply.