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.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.

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

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

Everybody is entertained to death.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

I sell escapism.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

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.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

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

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

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

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

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.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

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

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

I don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

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

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

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.

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 don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

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.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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

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

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

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

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‚Doctor Who.‘ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

I cannot live without books.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.