Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Quote by Francis Bacon about books
I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.Quote by Kathy Acker about books, people
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Quote by Walter Bagehot about books, reason, good, good luck, people
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.Quote by Walter Bagehot about books, reason, good, good luck, people
And he's writing a book right now that's going to be a little bit stronger than my book. But he really went through hell to get me out of prison.Quote by Jim Bakker about hell, writing, rightness
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.Quote by Louisa May Alcott about good, good luck, books
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.Quote by Ray Bradbury about criminals, books
Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.Quote by George Gordon Byron about name, nothing
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.Quote by Michael Caine about influence, books
Every book was the best I could do at the time I wrote it, and every book was a story I still care about and believe in.Quote by Orson Scott about love, time
I do see it as forming a continuum with the earlier books. It shares some of the same themes, in particular that of the friendship between a gay man and a straight man.Quote by Michael Chabon about friendship, books, man
I hope it will appeal to people who haven't read the other books or people who thought they wouldn't be interested in them.Quote by Michael Chabon about haven, books, hope, people, thinking
I started to feel that I had a large problem: my comic book characters didn't exist, and none of my readers would have seen them. The Escapist existed only within the covers of this book.Quote by Michael Chabon
It probably reaches deep down into my childhood history as a geek, being interested in comic books and getting nowhere with girls. Those two things going hand-in-hand.Quote by Michael Chabon about childhood, books, history, being, things
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.Quote by Michael Chabon