Books Quotes
-
I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world.
-
The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.
-
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.
-
Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival.
-
Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?
-
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!
-
Home is where your books are.
-
My books are friends that never fail me.
-
You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.”
-
I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.
-
Books don't harm kids; they arm them.
-
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
-
You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
-
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
-
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
-
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.
-
Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.
-
Wouldn't you like to have comrades?' But she would not like that. She wanted only to rest and to read her old, rain-swollen books, turning the pages carefully, so carefully.
-
But the fundamental reason for taking the time to read is because books (good books, that is; books that matter) are the best aid to extended thought and imaginative reflection we have invented. In our own time, this is particularly important, as an antidote to the segmentation of thought encouraged by digital technologies. Cruising among the infinite quanta of data offered on the internet is fine for finding out information; but the disparate fragments we look at on our various screens rarely cohere into continuous thought, or a deepening of knowledge.
-
Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
-
Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
-
I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.
-
I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
-
I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
