Books Quotes
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Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
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Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.
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I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.
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It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
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Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.
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There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not about my life. So, in 'A Feather on the Breath of God' I write about my parents, I write about this Russian immigrant, I write about the world of dance, but it isn't an autobiography; so much is left out.
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It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls.
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We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.
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I feel that blackboard needs to be improved and especially for new users, it can be really difficult to learn the basics. And I really wish they would do something about our overpriced books.
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Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.
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What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books.
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I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.
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The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.
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... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
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Sometimes the assumptions we make about others come not from what we have been told or what we have seen on television or in books, but rather rom what we have not been told. The distortion of historical information about people of color leads young people (and older people to) to make assumptions that may go unchallenged for a long time.
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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
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Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.
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I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.
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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
