Quotes of: Comic-books Keyword

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Simon Van Booy

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

Stephen Carter

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

Suzanne Collins

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

Manuel Puig

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

Martin Lewis Perl

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

Martin Parr

The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.

Mike Parry

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Mike Quigley

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

Marie Rutkoski

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

Mary Roach

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

Mary Roach

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

Meg Rosoff

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

Meg Rosoff

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

Molly Ringwald

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

Maggie Stiefvater

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

Maggie Stiefvater

When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists. When you see people, you sympathize their existence.

Mustafa SULTAN

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Margaret Walker

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

Malcolm X