Books Quotes

I regret all of my books.

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.

When I'm not hitting the books or on the court working, I like to help out around my community.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.

I read a lot of books and I've read a lot about how to understand and interpret body language. I've studied that.

May books spread the world over!

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books.

I mainly buy books in my free time.

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.

Real men read my books.

I'm a big fan of David Sedaris; I love all his books and have them all on audio and e-reader, in addition to hard copies.

I wasn't one of those kids who stole Richard Pryor records. I wasn't a comedy-nerd kid. I had no concept of stand-up. Actually, the only inkling of stand-up I had was I read one of Paul Reiser's books when I was, like, 12. I found it at a yard sale, and I carried it around with me for six years.

I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

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

I have a mini-library at home and I have begun reading books I'd purchased during my travels.

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

If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.