There are only two kinds of books worth keeping: Valuable books and valuable books. The first value is monetary, and the second value is mind-expanding capability.
I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.
Art is a picture of the spirit.
You don't make pictures for Oscars.
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
I don't make deals, I make pictures.
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
The picture was of me, and I sent it.
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pa...
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.
I love a natural look in pictures.
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!
I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
I'm not particular. I don't have favourite pictures.
Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here...
Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.
