I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
