Quotes of: Books Keyword

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

James Patterson

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

James Patterson

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

James Patterson

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.

John Rhys-Davies

I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing.

Joshua Roman

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

James Spader

Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.

J. K. Simmons

My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

John Searles

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

John Selden

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

Jonathan Shapiro

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

Jon Scieszka

Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading.

Jon Scieszka

If you think that I am mad now, then take away my books, and you'll find I've completely gone insane!

Jen Selinsky

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

Jack Vance

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

Jhonen Vasquez

Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.

David Amram

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

Desiderius Erasmus

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

Diana Gabaldon

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

Dhani Harrison