Book Content Quotes

When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

Would you want your wife or your servant to read this book?

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,' I know what's coming. They'll say to me, 'How old do I have to be to read this?' hoping I'll give them permission. But I can't do that.

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

If I'm reading a book by a footballer I don't want to read about games, how he scored or played well. People want to read what you thought, not what happened.

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by itself. Over the last several years, my life has been all about writing these books, but the books aren't about my life.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.