It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

It is really important to have a good sale this year because the libraries’ budget for new books from the county has been cut by 80 percent this year.

I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books that should be made into movies and some that shouldn’t. Harry Potter is 70% imagination....

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

[Cheney’s standing has suffered mainly because Libby emerges as such a liability. Fitzgerald threw the book at him not for anything he said to reporters but for what he said to the FBI and the...

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Raney … Describes more people I know than any book I’ve read.

I felt an enormous responsibility because internationally there’s a real passion among kiddies for these books.

I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting – you know – didn’t wash, didn’t eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel...

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard

All of us had been reading about it in the history books over the years. So, it was very special just to have passed the same route after knowing about all those great people who...

The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring.

I also read a couple of Chopper Read’s books, including Dave the Jew,

[My] deep religiosity… found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

The sooner we can line up company A against company B and have some modicum of evidence the books have been prepared in a similar fashion, the better off the market is going to be....

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh,...

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I’ve read has taught me something.

Changing the standards on the books is not the same as changing the meals themselves.

If, for $30, you can get 50 images in a book that is bound for you where you don’t have to buy an album I think there’s a lot of opportunity there. The market is...

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world’s books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn’t read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Rumsfeld is violating the law, … It’s been sitting on the books for over a year. They were opposed to it. It was insulting to them. I’m sorry that’s how they felt.

Our daughter wanted to talk about some of the topics that the books brought up, such as menstruation and breast development. She recognized on her own that her body was changing before her friends’, and...

No books, I’ll vote for you!

These guys can look at our books just as we can look at their books.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

We need to sell 10 books a day from every machine to make them profitable. Vending machines aren’t going to outshine traditional bookshops.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

From the German verb tinzelle- literally, “to book a turkey into 1,200 theaters and make one’s money before word of mouth hits.”

It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not read the third book, by the time I came to do it.

When I explained the premise of the book — that it wasn’t going to be a quickie kiss-and-tell but a serious work where I use his life in baseball to tell a larger story …...

Mariano tried to go in on him, which is the book: try and tie him up inside. But he got us again.

When I stopped her she fought. I followed CBP procedure by the book,

A man is known by the books he reads.

Real poverty is lack of books

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child...

I thought nobody in his right mind was going to publish a book for kids by me — not if they’ve read my adult fiction,

The market for unabridged, full-length books only started taking off over the last few years. And we think Hemingway will be especially popular for audio downloads.

It’s like the next Harry Potter book. You’ll have to wait for it and be grateful.

There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.

He’s very in depth, on the dark side. He’s interested in structure and how things work. After reading his books you can’t just be a tourist in those places, only seeing the sunny side.

If we’re going to object to depicting magic in books, then we are going to have to reject C.S. Lewis. We’re going to have to get rid of … … A lot of classic children’s...

I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable — any real insight or broad human sentiment.

I like the books because the heroines don’t do what others want them to, they do what they want.

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.