Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

New Books! French!

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

A bookstore to me is ike a candy store, … There is not a book I would not want to read at some point. My son is learning to read right now. Watching him get...

I’ve got 11 fly rods and a lot of unread books.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Books are a finer world within the world.

Nobody’s taught me. I read … some poker book I checked out of the library. I read about it so I’d have some idea of the rules of the game, so I wouldn’t make a...

You don’t have to go buy your book.

The novel can’t compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who’s had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day...

What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts...

August is when I read, … I pick books that take me away and I really enjoy it.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it...

I tried to get them to book a flight into Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and they just said, ‘There are no flights,’

By burning Luther’s books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men’s minds of him

Our major acquisitions and joint ventures … will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,

I wish I had learned more about it in high school, but they didn’t put it in the history books, … I have great respect for the Navajo Code Talkers and their heroic acts.

The way they shot the ball was for the books, and we kind of choked on offense.

Books are for nothing but to inspire.

We have the books being cooked, that’s bad enough, but what we have then is senior managers engaging in paying hush money to cover up their misdeeds.

ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.So wide his erudition’s mighty span, He knew Creation’s origin and plan And only came by accident to grief — He thought, poor man,...

[Two other books I recommend are] What I Learned from Jackie Robinson … Voices of Summer.

There are a lot of Bibles and an enormous collection of religious books from various religions that should appeal to anyone who has a religious interest of any sort.

He himself has said you can follow the patterns and real events in his life by reading his books, which doesn’t mean you can figure out his life by reading his books. Simply that the...

Over 200 books were nominated for consideration by the Bancroft jury this year. Once again, we were very impressed by the number of excellent submissions covering a broad range of themes, and are proud to...

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea...

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

With the restaurants and the books he’s got going on, it seems like he needs the constant reminder that he’s out there. It’s all part of the aura, and I think he has to tour...

I thought, Wow!, … Here’s a historical revelation that will cause the history books to be rewritten. No one’s ever heard of a U.S. nuclear test in the Sudan in 1962.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

No academic is going to know these books half as well as the fans that will be gathering.

used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the election and distort the results.

If ever I were to read a comic book, it might be this one.

Hotels tend to look for lengthier stays as well. So it is cheaper to book and negotiate against a four-night stay than it is for a one-night stay.

What’s been happening for the last 20 years is I’ve been making the shoes, answering the phone, doing the books everything,

Maybe then I can finish my book.

Marxist-Leninism per se was really a latter development: not until 1968 that we really considered the Red Book required reading.

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

Screenplays I didn’t really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

There are people who want their kids to read books about gays and lesbians. Therefore, we have an obligation to have those books. We select those books the same way we select all others —...

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers

Any researcher or student, whether they’re in New York or New Delhi can now research and learn from these books that previously were only available in a library.