Books Quotes
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A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.
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Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
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I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.
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Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
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Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.
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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
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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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As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.
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An artist’s life is all very fine and moving. But only in retrospect. In books.
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Books crowbar the world open for you.
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Books are the greatest and the most satisfactory of recreations. I mean the use of books for pleasure. Without books, without having acquired the power of reading for pleasure, none of us can be independent, but if we can read we have a sure defence against boredom in solitude.
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“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”
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I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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I use no figure of speech when I say that we may now buy our books in bulk. I saw, only this morning, the advertisement of a large dry goods “emporium” (’tis laces and literature now) wherein is announced for sale the bound volumes of a popular magazine. “Over eight pounds of the choicest reading, bound in the usual style—olive green.
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Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
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Read the books which they the ancients have written, read those which you prefer, they will speak to you and you will speak to them.
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Basbanes makes you love books.
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Calling something "new age" is one of the media's biggest canons. If you're called "new age," you couldn't possibly be serious, you couldn't possibly have anything deep to say, and you probably hang out in California too much - and we know that no one in California reads books or has any serious thoughts!
