I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.
Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.
As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.