Quotes About Books

I'm a voracious reader.

Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.

As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

I've read, like, 10,000 self-help books.

I'm really into Deepak Chopra and self-help books.

As an author, I love to know my book sells really well.

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

I read several books at once.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

Before my son was even born, he already had two shelves of books.

I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.

I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they do, I tend to take them off.

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it.

Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

If you make a book which is little more than putting a television script on the page, and add a few pictures, that would be a bad thing. But I would never do that because I happen to be very interested in language, in writing.

At Sunderland I balanced the books and managed them to this position of 10th and 13th. My record stacks up.

I try not to read acting books any more, but they set a high bar for me very early on.

We all want happiness in our life. I mean, there are so many books on, like, how to be happy and what you need for happiness, and you want that for your kid, too; you want your kid to be happy.

I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on 'Beauty and the Beast' and have a better library than she had.