If you were to read my books, to behave as educated persons would, you would learn that they are not sexy, and do not argue in favor of wildness of any kind. They beg that people be kinder and more responsible than they often are. It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. […]
Books Quotes
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good.
And so there ain’t nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I’d ‘a’ knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t ‘a’ tackled it, and ain’t a-going to no more.
Man builds no structure which outlives a book.
The important thing about a paperback, and I think printing might have been invented for the paper back -is that it’s portable, dispensable and cheap. Essentially not valuable. No morality is involved in taking care of it.
I have no liking for novels or stories-none in the world; and so, whenever I read one-which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book-my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter […]
I would rather take a fifty-mile hike than crawl through a book. I prefer to skip the long ones and get a synopsis from the story department.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them – you can’t help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there’s […]
We do not want holy books, but true ones; not sacred writings, but sensible writings.
