I'm too fond of reading books to care to write them.
There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.
No matter how much a man may study, reflect and meditate on all the books in the world, he is nothing more than a minor scribe unless he has read the great book.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
“We need books because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.”
I read in self-defense.
I regard my books as novels, not just as thrillers or detective stories.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
I discovered books and read forever.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The real war will never get in the books.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
I cannot live without books.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.
I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.