Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from and how they're made they never seem quite as sacred again.

I want to serve chess through games books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome too to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest quite content.

Works of art often last forever or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves especially gallery exhibitions are like flowers they bloom and then they die then exist only as memories or pressed in magazines and books.

Be true to yourself help others make each day your masterpiece make friendship a fine art drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible build a shelter against a rainy day give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

I also met early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone learning some French.

As a kid I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid you get attached to these characters.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want which I frequently do.

Scholarship was one thing drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read let alone make notes on hundreds and hundreds of very very very boring books.

I like to read books and be alone I'm not social butterfly person.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that as a novelist you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books we are not alone.

As a child I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there I wanted to make loads of money.

If the First Amendment means anything it means that a state has no business telling a man sitting alone in his house what books he may read or what films he may watch.

You could say in a vulgar Freudian way that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

I live alone with cats books pictures fresh vegetables to cook the garden the hens to feed.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be and he who studies men will know how they are.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.