Book Quotes - Page 550

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try to make up in quantity and complexity what they lack in quality. That's bullshit! They're just hiding their bullshit!

The most popular cartoon of mine is a guy on the phone looking at his appointment book and saying "No, Thursday's out. How about never, is never good for you?"

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. Up until my first book was published I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: No, I didn't screw up.

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.

When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes for someone else to make the end product essentially. My scripts are just directions for the artist to draw pages and the pages are what is seen. I kind of feel like it's a safety net, you're able to hide behind the art to a certain extent, and in television you're able to hide behind the actors and the production, but with novels, your words are it

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them, showing them how to act rather than telling them. And I suggested that they should do the same with one another: that they didn't need a book of rules to tell them what to do and what not to do, but experience and action.

Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read the best books. It turns out that even when you create this kind of environment, maybe only 10 percent of the people want to read those books.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.