Quotes About Future Books

#1. I didn't make 'The New York Times' bestseller list until 'Charmed Thirds,' and then again for 'Fourth Comings.' It gave me a certain validation, and it certainly helps position me for future books, but it's not something I think about on a daily basis.

Megan McCafferty

#2. He called it The Bridge because that was how felt about books. They connected the past and the present, the present and the future. Books brought people together and gave them a path to worlds they would not otherwise experience.

Karen Kingsbury

#3. You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story I want. The future can be anything I want it to be." He moved his head side to side, considering my words. "That works, as long as your story has a blond stud that fucks like an animal.

Adriana Locke

#4. In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

Debbie Macomber

#5. And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books."
"Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

Terri Blackstock

#7. James II's second wife, an Italian Catholic princess called Mary (at the time, there was an edict whereby all female royals were to be called Mary to confuse future readers of history books),

Stephen Clarke

#8. Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.

Natalie Maines

#9. During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.

J.K. Rowling

#10. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

Tatiana De Rosnay

#11. In his books, Tolle repeatedly denigrated the habit of worrying, which he characterized as a useless process of projecting fearfully into an imaginary future. "There is no way that you can cope with such a situation, because it doesn't exist.

Dan Harris

#12. There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.

Adam Ross

#13. I believe that culture begins in the cradle ... To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

Jane Yolen

#14. In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love.

Sarah MacLean

#15. Everyone's life is an evolution of emotions, spirit and beliefs. The storyline changes, plots thicken, main characters mature and new spiritual journeys begin. This is true of inspirational authors. Their books represent only the stages of their life. New triumphs of the soul have yet to be written!

Shannon L. Alder

#16. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

Virginia Woolf

#17. Time ...
Once it's gone, it belongs to the past.
We do not hold on to the now, and
We do not treasure the future ...
We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late.
Until it comes no more.

Michelle Horst

#18. Books'll be back," Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. "Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It's not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

David Mitchell

#19. Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I'm doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean - reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.

Jo Walton

#20. I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

Jo Brand

#21. I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

Robert Greene

#22. I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#23. I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I've written many short stories with realistic settings, and I certainly wouldn't rule out realistic novels in the future!

Cassandra Clare

#24. It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. ... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

Danielle Steel

#25. I walk through the old yellow sunlight
to get to my kitchen table
the poem about me
lying there with the books
in which I am listed
among the dead and future Dylans

Leonard Cohen

#26. The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted ... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.

Gary Shteyngart

#27. Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

Anne Rice

#28. What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.

Alice Dalgliesh

#29. Future writers hide inside books and snort up the craft by enjoyment. They read and learn structure and style. Their curiosity points them to subject matter.

James Ellroy

#30. Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim Bishop

#31. It seems that if our species ever eradicates itself through war, it will not be because it was written in the stars but because it was written in our books; it is what we do with words like 'God' and 'paradise' and 'sin' in the present that will determine our future.

Sam Harris

#32. Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been Jewish, and I wouldn't be surprised if all my future main characters were as well.

Lauren Weisberger

#33. Apart from writing books, my 40s have been about pursuing personal growth. Whatever were the mistakes of my earlier life, I've been committed to a pause, a regroup. I don't want to make the same mistakes in the future.

Monique Roffey

#34. Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.

Molly Keane

#35. I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future - there will be books written about Harry.

J.K. Rowling

#36. If I had books, if I could scrape together an education, I'd have a future, whether any man ever asked me to marry him or not.

Laura Amy Schlitz

#37. Mankind in Amnesia has to do not only with the past, like my other books
primarily it has to do with the future, a future not removed by thousands or tens of thousands of years, but the imminent future, on whose threshold we now stand.

Immanuel Velikovsky

#38. I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#39. If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#40. I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

Philip Reeve

#41. I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.

J. Robert Lennon

#42. I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

Susan Orlean

#43. The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

Graham Greene

#44. Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person's vision of the future.

Joshua Rogers

#45. I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.

Bauvard

#46. I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get the money then you didn't have anything. If I did the work I was proud of and I didn't get the money, at least I'd have the work.

Neil Gaiman

#47. There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

Ray Bradbury

#48. My books nourish my soul. When I open a cover and begin to read, I go to new places, to worlds I never knew existed. I time travel into the past and up into the distant future

Ann Hite

#49. The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

David Shrigley

#50. The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books.

David Edelstein

#51. We don't need "trip to heaven" books. We have an actual God-ordained vision of heaven and future events.

Todd Friel

#52. I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Connie Willis

#53. You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

Bret Easton Ellis

#54. Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

Brandon Sanderson

#55. Forget the past, think of future, remember God's goodness and His power and ability to take you to where you ought to be and establish you.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#56. One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.

Kevin Sampsell

#57. I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality.

Elizabeth Kostova

#58. Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Garson Kanin

#59. When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.

Susan Orlean

#60. These people will never understand him! He'll be famous - a legend - I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future - there will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know his name!

J.K. Rowling

#61. The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#62. Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.

Clyde Heath

#63. It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future ...

Wilferd Peterson

#64. Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself.

Marilynne Robinson

#65. In my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.

Lisa Factora-Borchers

#66. The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books.

Vint Cerf

#67. I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#68. To be honest the future of The Life of One Kid... won't go very far... but I won't only put books/films.... and so on and so on... and some short stories I am going to put... from my darkness.

Deyth Banger

#69. Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read ... This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.

Daniel Gordis

#70. I love books. I'm giving some hard copies of the Sacerdos Mysteries book away because I think there's something so brilliant about them. The digitisation trend is the future but people will still want the feel and smell of real books.

Elizabeth Amisu

#71. What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

Albert Brooks

#72. children will be able to tell than the story we have told? Surely that is the greatest contribution of science to civilization: to ensure that the greatest books are not those of the past, but of the future.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#73. Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

Dorothea Dix

#74. I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.

Ellen Hopkins

#75. Keep an eye on the future as you work in the present and you will catch a glimpse of the completed work which you have been called to do.

Jonah Books

#76. Everything is going well "Day One" book up to page 137, planning som new movies to watch in the near future, close to awesome and powerful quotes. Some new and awesome events... - And that's life, that's how it must be!

Deyth Banger

#77. London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.

Anna Quindlen

#78. There are no easy answers for the balance of how you protect the core business of the books with what the digital future will look like, but that would be our job with DC Comics, to figure that out and experiment and take some risks while always protecting the core business.

Diane Nelson

#79. Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

Esther Meynell

#80. Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect.

Freeman Dyson

#81. Nature, in her wisdom, seems to have arranged it so that men's stupidity should be ephemeral, and books make them immortal. A fool ought to be content having exacerbated everyone around him, but he insists tormenting future generations.

Montesquieu

#82. Although she was not a great reader, Mma Potokwane was a firm believer in the power of the book. The more books that Botswana had, in her view, the better. It would be on books that the future would be based; books and the people who knew how to use them.

Alexander McCall Smith

#83. No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

Betsy Lerner

#84. I hate those e-books. They can not be the future ... they may well be ... I will be dead.

Maurice Sendak

#85. The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

Joshua Foer

#86. You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

Earl Nightingale

#87. Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives.
[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]

Anna Quindlen

#88. I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

Matt Groening

#89. While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

Robert E. Howard

#90. I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart ... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

John Grisham

#91. One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.

Nelson Mandela

#92. I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

Thomas Jefferson

#93. The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I just thought of it as past and future history.

Mike Mullin

#94. Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.

Malala Yousafzai

#95. Allowing the failures of others to control your life is to allow them to control your future.

Jonah Books

#96. Often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among the living, better acquainted with them than with her own friends. she very nearly lost consciousness that she was a separate being, with a future of her own.

Virginia Woolf

#97. I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

Stephen Jay Gould

#98. I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.

Alan Moore

#99. Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

Tucker Max

#100. Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo