Book Quotes

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

You can put truth in a different book, but it’s still real. It’s still the truth.

Books are a narcotic.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.