All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I... →
Robert Caro
What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.
Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books... →
David Carradine
In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something... →
John le Carre
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the... →
At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had... →
Jonathan Carroll
I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.
Shane Carruth
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
Stephen Carter