Books Quotes

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
Maurice Sendak

Children, Tell, Kids

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
Denzel Washington

Remember, Office, Worked

Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?
Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Life, Funny, Real

The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Best, Ask, Questions

I write books to find out about things.
Rebecca West

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
Neil Gaiman

Family, Book, Find

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.
John Podhoretz

York, Review, Vehicle

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
Doris Lessing

Respect, Society, Learning

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.
Jeff Miller

Strong, Done, Before

I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
Beth Ditto

Best, Fun, Friend

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Sell, Sins, Confess

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Bernard Baruch

Give, Friends, Old

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
John Milton

Himself, Shallow

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Truth, Few, Satisfied

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
Patti Smith

Away, Loved, Read

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.
Jenny McCarthy

Spiritual, Getting, Read

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
William Glasser

Teacher, School, Help

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.
Emeril Lagasse

May, Whatever, Whether

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.
Michael Bloomberg

Thought, Laws, Contempt

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
Dean Koontz

Different, Two, Year

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
Dean Koontz

Humor, Others, Means

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
Dean Koontz

Past, Long, Wish

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
Salman Rushdie

Play, Become, Story

But everything of value about me is in my books.
V. S. Naipaul

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V. S. Naipaul

End, Write, Lives

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
Jonathan Sacks

Life, History, Live

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
Neale Donald Walsch

End, Writing, Fact

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing

Great, Men, Best

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet

Minds, Alive, Paper

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