Books Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
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Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
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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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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 think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
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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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I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.
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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
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Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.
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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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All my books center around death in some way.
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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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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
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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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I know how to sell 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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But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.
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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
