Books Quotes

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.
Kevin J. Anderson

Time, Book, Turn

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.
Kevin J. Anderson

Money, Stupid, Mean

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.
Melissa Rosenberg

Women, Great, Thinking

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.
Brad Thor

Character, True, End

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.
James MacArthur

Hell, Idea, Somewhere

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
Laurie Anderson

Children, Book, Words

It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
Kate Atkinson

Men, Said, Weak

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.
Luke Ford

King, Heroes, Abraham

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Rather, Used, Looking

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Done, Left, Behind

My head was always in books.
Kate Bosworth

Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?
Henry Winkler

Wanted, Producing

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.
Method Man

Old, Since, Television

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.
Jonathan Carroll

Someone, Why, Around

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
James Weldon Johnson

Life, Music, School

I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.
George A. Romero

Fun, Before, Old

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
Cornelia Funke

Feeling, Real, Knows

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
Cornelia Funke

She, Inspired, Oh

I will try to write books until I drop dead.
Cornelia Funke

Try, Dead, Write

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.
Aisha Tyler

Time, Good, Women

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
Floyd Abrams

Law, Enough, Sense

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
Gunter Grass

Bad, Sacred, Therefore

'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
Maggie Stiefvater

Black, Read, Club

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
Maggie Stiefvater

Work, Movies, Working

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.
Lynn Johnston

Love, School, Sex

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.
Michael Ian Black

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
Caroline Wozniacki

Music, Family, Friends

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
Norman MacCaig

Poetry, Fishing, Behind

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.
Norman MacCaig

Friends, Same, Again

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
Norman MacCaig

Teacher, Nothing, Whatever

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