Frank Herbert Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Book, Example

• What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.

  Frank Herbert

  Book, People, Needs

  "Conversations in Port Townsend". "The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction" edited by Tim O'Reilly, 1987.

• There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.

  Frank Herbert

  Book, Giving, Entertainment

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.9, Penguin

• When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.

  Frank Herbert

  Book, Writing, Years

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.8, Penguin

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