Quotes About Books

keep them warm burn everything except Shakespeare.

She thought of the self-help books preaching the importance of gratitude that millions of Americans bought each year. How many of them could muster gratitude for a cup of tea?

But she'd never wanted kids. Books were her kids.

You read a lot," said the behatted kvetch indicating the two novels he had open. He nodded, because there was no denying it and because he didn't want to put up the ante for a conversation. Books aren't life." No, they're better," he replied and flipped through the thirty-two library cards in his wallet to remove his one credit card to pay. This was twenty-first century vagrancy.

Everything's computerized these days," he wheezed, "but I'm a sucker for hard copies. There's something about the physical feeling of paper in your hand that helps you to think, right? Or maybe that's just me.

This is not a real book; not really. A real book tells a story. A real book starts at the beginning and has a middle and an end and I should know. I've read enough of them. So many that one day I woke up as a character in one. I'm there now, trapped between the pages of a book about a girl who drops out of school, reads more than is good for her and ends up in the loony bin.

Yes, give us books about the psychotic behavior and peripheral weirdness we see all around every day -- and we will laugh in its face. We are a proud people. We are Floridians.

Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.

I tell you this: I'm not an outdoorsman. Actually, one of my things is to pick a little corner in Borders or Barnes & Noble and fall back and just read.

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.

I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children's books.

I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite characters. I don't think that's right.

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of nonfiction.

I look forward the day that I could work on my farm, create music, write books, and be with the wife and kids around the clock - and live a normal life.

What I've gathered from people who are big fans of the 'Musketeers', they adore the books to the degree where an awful lot of them, even if they have problems with an adaptation, normally still lap it up because they just love the whole idea of it.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'