477 Quotes About Books-and-reading

Let me say again that I have not read your book. And one of the reasons I didn't was because I wanted to do my own research. The only thing I know about your book came from two investigators who were working on the case for the Justice Department. I have not read your book, and you have not seen my film.

Oh, hi Kobe. Yes, well, about the book ...

We're trying to get there. It would be exciting to put our names in the record books as brothers.

We're going to have the first one, and then we'll see how it goes. We started the Texas Book Festival six years ago in Austin, and it's become institutionalized as an annual event at the Texas capitol. So I expect this will be very successful here.

I'm a fan. My grandchildren are fans. I wish I'd written the books.

Usually it's someone who's taking rare books where they have some marketability and hope for huge profits.

If you think about libraries built even 20, 30 years ago, they were about protecting books, keeping the light out, kind of creating an environment that kept people apart from the world. What you're seeing (now) is lots of glass. ... the library becomes very transparent.

We can close the book on center fuel tank explosions,

When I was a cook and 24 years old... I read the kinds of books that were the inspiration to understanding the value of simplicity in cooking.