Books Quotes
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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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Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
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I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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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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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom.
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But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.
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... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.
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Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
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Like other German theorists of the state, Carl Schmitt held to the idea that politics is always about violence; if we really and truly disagree with other people, we ought to treat them as enemies. Fish does not follow Schmitt this far. To be sure, he fills his books with examples of people who ought to, and usually do, hate each other: secular liberals dealing with religious fundamentalists; full-stop opponents of affirmative action confronting those who support it; defenders of speech codes and critics of hate-crime laws.
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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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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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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.
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There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.
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As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be reading two books at the same time that are totally different and then have two stories mix together.
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Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
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In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.
