Books Quotes
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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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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Years teach us more than books.
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I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
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I just thought it was so fitting, because my husband was an editor and loved books and because his father's weaponry collection is there as well.
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Books crowbar the world open for you.
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“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”
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If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.
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I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.
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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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A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.
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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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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
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What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them
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I supposed when you had immortality to waste, spending it on books wasn’t such a bad idea. I saw the sense in it. Books – at least the good sort – were doors into worlds beyond our miserable own.
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The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.
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I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.
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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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Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
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Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to my agent she got very excited because she said it reminded her of Angle of Repose.
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Well, Jim, I haven't read any of your books but I'll have to someday because they must be good considering how well they sell.
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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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I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.
