The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.
Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.
When I'm in my car, I'm listening to books, audio books, always.
There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.'
I'm a big fan of Myron Mixon. I've read a couple of his books, and I've learned the little bit that I know about barbecue from those books.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.
Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing.
Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay.
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries.
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.