To read too many books is harmful.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

I'm not too interested in books about India.