'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.
My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.
Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.
I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.
Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.
Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
I read 'Carrie' when I was younger and that's one of my favourite books.
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
