Book Quotes - Page 270

I wrote this book [ Desperate Marriages] because of my own marriage. My wife and I struggled greatly in the early years of marriage. In spite of the fact that we were Christians before we got married, we prayed about getting married, we believed it was God's will for us to get married, and we still had great struggles.

Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

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

In the end all books are written for your friends.

I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

All I've done is give you a book. You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.

Reading maketh a full man.

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

I don't understand "The Little World of the Past" [a reference to the title of the book by Antonio Fogazzaro] that is destined to die.

There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.