Books Quotes
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Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.
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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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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”
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You are a Witch. I am a Prince. In all the books, where there is a Witch and a Prince there is a way.
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My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.
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The business of books is the business of life.
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Like books, artists have their fates.
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I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people... they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you... when there is no spiritual growth... there is no spiritual strength... there is no lasting happiness... and, there is no real or lasting wealth.
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Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. But a girl who writes books - why, it isn't respectable! And you can't snub that sort of people; they're unsnubbable.
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There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
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You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.
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Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
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In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
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I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.
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I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
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There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.
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Being poor is only romantic in books.
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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. There simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.
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No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.
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Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.
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With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel - but rarely for content, and especially not without a widespread outcry.
