Frank Oz Quotes

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

A good book is a good book. End of story.

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.

I love to read. My favorite book series is 'Cherubs'.

In a book, you can kind of take time and have lulls in places.

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.