477 Quotes About Books-and-reading

My book is not a book of dirty stories. There are no shocking revelations. I wasn't looking for any and I didn't find any.

Marxist-Leninism per se was really a latter development: not until 1968 that we really considered the Red Book required reading.

From comic books to radio to TV to the movies, everyone knows this character. And they have an idea of who he should be. Those can be big expectations.

I'm amazed that Fitzgerald's books now sell millions, ... Nobody believed in him then. It was so sad. He was about 40, but I thought of him as an old man.

Obviously, we've only seen parts of things. And the book itself doesn't come out until the end of the month, but we'll review everything that there is to look at.

That's my mom. Books came first. Before you could go play, you had to get your homework done.

I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

It's a pretty difficult situation all around. We're throwing the book at it.

People do like the film versions of things, ... I thought this was a nice way to get my books back into the marketplace.