What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they’re trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
I’ve compiled a book from the Internet. It’s a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.
The big advantage of a book is that it’s very easy to rewind. Close it and you’re right back at the beginning.
Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.
I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burnt or hanged.
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn’t elevate a cow.
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing.
I am too old to have ever been very worried about what “genre” any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.
It doesn’t really matter what “genre” your book is. What matters is that it’s a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.
Writing is alone, but I don’t think it’s lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they’re writing their book, and I think they’ll say no.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that – you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.
I’ll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I’ll make you me.
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
I think the book you always like best is the one you’re about to write.