As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.
Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.
Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold the others book for them to read.
I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.
There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient book should be read only by the professionals, and the amateur should content himself with modern books.
People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books.
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.
Never Judge a Book by its Cover". This quote doesn't apply to books only, but also to people, places and everything else.
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
