Book Quotes
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
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This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever “it” is and however small the thing it is they do.
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I love the book legacy of lies it amazing and is fun to read over and over again
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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book.
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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
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When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.
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I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.
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Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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A few months ago, I would have thrown this book down in disgust and walked away—maybe even returned home, where the only books I knew reminded me of my father. But now… My fingers wrapped around the spine of the book. Now I was willing to try anything.
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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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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.
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But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.
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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.
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All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
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There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
