Book Quotes - Page 232

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.

One must always be careful of books.

If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If they've never cried for a fictional character, then they've never loved one (and what a joy that is). If they've never cried at a book, a movie, a piece of music, then they've missed one of the great pleasures life has to offer. Just because fiction does not contain things that are real doesn't mean it doesn't contain truth, and we find it through the alchemy of our tears.

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

Big book, a big bore.

I am a product [...of] endless books.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking what you write, it's about improving with every word, little by little, exploring your craft, becoming the artist you hope to be one day. And you can only do that by working at it every day. It doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen over a weekend, it is a lifelong pursuit.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

The inspiration for the book came after a visitation from a spiritual being that materialized before me on two consecutive nights. Although I crumpled into unconsciousness at the outset of each encounter and consciously remembered hearing only an initial word or two from the entity, I awakened on the dawn after the second visit with the ideas for The Divine Fire bubbling in my brain.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody's going through that.

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

Never trust people who've only got one book.

Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.