Book Quotes
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Asking me to choose between a traditional book and a Kindle is like asking me which of my dogs I love most.
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
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What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. These books should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.
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Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.
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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing our 34th novel.
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My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
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I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.
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A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
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I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.
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I'm pretty money savvy. My dad made me read 'Rich Dad Poor Dad' when I was 12 - this investing book about how to manage your money and be smart. So I'm kind of like a grandmother.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people standing in line to get my signature in their book, it's hard to turn them away.
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Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
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I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician.
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I don't like to make my life like a book.
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When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself.
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to go read the book.
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I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book.
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
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I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.
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We didn't have all the distractions that young people have today. We didn't have these incredible computer games and social networks to engage with. I understand that. But once young readers do discover reading, when they discover a book which they fall in love with, it really unleashes something new in their imagination.
