Diverse Reading Importance

Table of Contents

• The Impact of Books and Reading
• Books as Companions and Influences
• Authors' Perspectives on Books
• Books and Society
• Collaboration and Creation of Books
• Books as Personal Experiences
• Other

The Impact of Books and Reading

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.

A good book in wrong hands can create a monster.

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

making the world a more secure place for the irreplaceable legacy of the book.

No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs to be done if we're ever going to get economic equality, health, reproductive health, violence. I mean, it's every category.

A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world.

I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.

We all would love the idea of people getting what's coming to them in books and in life, but sometimes the trajectory is a little more complicated than that.

I love those books and movies where someone turns because they're blackmailed or they're passed over for promotion.

You always hope a book's going to be a success. I don't think I've ever written a book thinking, 'This will be bad and no-one will like it!'

Books as Companions and Influences

We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.

Everyone and Everything is conspiring to end up in a book.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

Beware the man of one book.

Beware of the person of one book.

Never trust anybody with only one book.

Beware of a man of one book.

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

Hello! This is a book of bad ideas.

Authors' Perspectives on Books

People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]

My shitty book, no one is going to read, about a total asshole and a completely fucked up world.

I guess a book about a nice safe place where nothing happens would be kind of boring and no one would read it.

This is not a book for the wild-haired crazies your company keeps in a corner. It is a book for you, your boss, and your employees, because the best future available to us is a future where you contriubute your true self and your best work. Are you up for that?

When I think of how good my book can be, it scares me.

I am troubled that someone would sell a book, trading on their service as a government insider with access to our nation's most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book,

book will become a bestseller, and I'm sure even be proposed for the Nobel prize.

Let us have evil prancing on the page and, up to the very last line, sneering in the face of all the inherited beliefs, Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Holy Roller, about people being able to make themselves better. Such a book would be sensational, and so it is. But I do not think it is a fair picture of human life. I.

I really wanted the book to make money, in an obsessive childish way – that feeling that if I wanted it enough, it should happen. It should happen.

There will be great books. There will be great films. Sometimes, if we are lucky, the two will intersect.

Books and Society

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

This book is dedicated to everyone who has ever been told they can’t. Let’s jump off the cliff together.

We may not all be on the same chapter, but we should be in the same book". ~R. Alan Woods [2007]

Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!

You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.

We fully intend to find the right book to launch that part of our strategy.

I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs to be done if we're ever going to get economic equality, health, reproductive health, violence. I mean, it's every category.

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

A big book is a big misfortune.

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.

I wouldn’t mind my book being called an African novel if it didn’t invite lazy readings.

I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a terrible book.

Collaboration and Creation of Books

I never can understand how two men can write a book together. To me, that’s like three people getting together to have a baby.

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

One of the things that's always interested me, from the first book on, is unintended consequences,

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don’t hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that’s like three people getting together to have a baby.

I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.

Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.

Books as Personal Experiences

What in this fucking world are you going to tell me?...One book has been written by You so far... you have read few books and you are spreading what!?

Everyone is a different book, with a different cover, different contain but the question is do you dare to open it?

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.book: stuff i think about

Who do I think would appreciate my book?I’m surprised anybody does. Oops, did I say that out loud?

If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'

I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.

Beware the man of the single book

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

I am troubled that someone would sell a book, trading on their service as a government insider with access to our nation’s most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001.

I like a book better if I can’t predict what’s going to happen.

Other

I would like to accept C. H.'s bookBut it would make my own seem so out of date.Heaven will protectThe lay reader.

Beware the man of a single book.

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.

For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

(The book) is the perfect solution for a lot of people. I'm not the only one out there wanting this book.

I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.

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