A great leader is almost always a great follower for he knows what to learn and from whom.
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.
I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.
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.
In my own book-signings, I find humility. It’s always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books.
As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.
I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one who made it happen. There's been a lot of those books that didn't really interest me much.
Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.
You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.
A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.
Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.
In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final pages of my books.
There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.
No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.
Set off on a quest to find someone who has read a book or many books and remains the same, and I can tell you with all certainty there is no one you will see.
I am a passionate reader. New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.
Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.
