Quotes About Books

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.

Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like the idea that anyone can love books. Books don't care how educated you are or what you do for a living.

I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

I don't think I ever won't do radio. I feel like, between the radio, the podcast, the books, even social media, you have to be a personality eleven places now, or you're not a personality anywhere.

When I get an email from someone who says, 'Your book was the first book I ever read,' or, 'Your book is what made me love reading,' it's just such an honor.

I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don't write anything - put anything in my books - that I'd be embarrassed to put in an adult book.

I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

I think Congress can pass a bill when the American people start regaining trust in the administration to actually do their job and enforce the laws that are already on the books.

I read good. I was an English major.

It's wonderful being an author and having so many kids enjoying my books. That's always been my dream job, and I feel very lucky to be able to do it.

Keep interested, read books, watch television and try to keep in touch with life and what people are doing, seeing and enjoying.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.