Books Quotes
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I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
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Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.
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Books don't harm kids; they arm them.
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There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
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What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.
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I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
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I wonder if books become in essence "files" if people wouldn't write them differently. I'm used to writing print books and I enjoy the slowness of the whole process. It makes me more deliberate about everything I say.
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You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.”
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The books we are required to teach frequently have nothing to do with anything except the fact that they have always been taught, or that there is an oversupply of them, or that some committee or other was asked to come up with some titles.
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Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
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...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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One of my favourite books about hackers is 'Masters of Deception' about this hacking group in the 1990s. Many of them didn't come from wealthy families. These are kids that are very intelligent; they just happen to be misdirected.
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Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.
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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
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The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
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But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!
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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
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I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
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Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.
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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
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Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.
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Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
