I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.

I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

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

I cannot live without books.

A home without books is a body without soul.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

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

I was adored once too.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

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.

Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

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

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

I am not a fan of books.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

The right-wingers don’t want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.

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.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.