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Quotes about books
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. (Acton Lord)
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. (Acton Lord)
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October. (Acton Lord)
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. (Acton Lord)
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Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately. (Acton Lord)
I cannot live without books. (Acton Lord)
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. (Acton Lord)
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. (Acton Lord)
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. (Acton Lord)
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. (Acton Lord)
I can look at [my books] with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. (Acton Lord)
A book that is shut is but a block. (Acton Lord)
A multitude of books distracts the mind. (Acton Lord)
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. (Acton Lord)
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. (Acton Lord)
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. (Acton Lord)
Dude, we took Fireball Ministry out on our last Europe tour, ... We were so psyched on them that we asked them to come back. They put on a really good show and they're almost like the new Black Sabbath in my book. The Knives are really cool too. We've been friends with them forever. They have a cool Queens Of The Stone Age-type vibe. I just got their record and I like it a lot. (Acton Lord)
I'm sure when the book came out a lot of people called it a masterpiece and a lot of people called it garbage, ... I hope some people can respect it for what it is. (Acton Lord)
It totally sounds like an advice book, ... but there's not a shred of advice in the entire book, which is good for any of your readers. It's a novel. It's a humor book. It's sort of a what-if scenario of what would happen if you took a B-movie actor, meaning me -- I take the lead role in the book -- and put him into a big Hollywood movie. The answer is that it's not good. It's a misadventure. I single-handedly take down a big Hollywood movie. (Acton Lord)
In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived. (Acton Lord)
My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids. (Acton Lord)
If you are going to do justice to the book, it has to be dark. (Acton Lord)
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about. (Acton Lord)
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say. (Acton Lord)
A book in Japan said that I'm the last dragon coming out of Hong Kong. (Acton Lord)
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