Books Quotes
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The business of books is the business of life.
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I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.
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This is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.
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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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No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell...
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive...
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These books are all refreshingly clear-headed and unfashionable, free of cant and free of Kant;
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
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But the book! The siren song of the book!
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.
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I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.
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There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
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If I had the money I'd pay people to have them read accurate books or posts about our own religion. It is very important not only for their self-image, but also for the future of Europe - as a biological term.
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
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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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Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
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It's refreshing, if you ask me, to have lengthy conversations with clear, brilliant minds about books, art, and what ought to happen next and how. I love it.
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The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"
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Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like" Cartwright.
