I don’t know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn’t hurt the book.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

Too much TV hurts movies.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and I’m speaking the written science fiction, not ‚Star Trek.‘ Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they’re clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn’t intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

I know about two things: ‚Rocky III‘ and Clubber Lang, and ‚A-Team‘ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don’t have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don’t pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.

Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

Writers speak stench.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.