I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.
John Le Carre

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
Augusten Burroughs

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.
Julian Clary

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.
Patton Oswalt

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
Eudora Welty

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Carl Sandburg

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
Carl Sandburg

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
Saint Bernard

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
Travis Barker

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.
Glenn Danzig

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.
Glenn Danzig

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel Butler

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield