Books Quotes
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I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.
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Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce.
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Has enough government on the books. I agree with Mr. Stracener that we don't need to broaden the scope of local government.
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General histories-there have been a few that have served as pioneering books.
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To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.
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You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.
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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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Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.
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An artist’s life is all very fine and moving. But only in retrospect. In books.
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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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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
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A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
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Some young men think they can learn how to be successful in politics from books, and they cram their heads with all sorts of college rot. They couldn’t make a bigger mistake.
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I cry in movies a lot, and over books.
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I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”
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I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
