Books Quotes
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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.
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Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?
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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.
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Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
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Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
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We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
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Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy.
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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
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My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.
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Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
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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.
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The books we call the New Testament were not gathered together into one canon and considered scripture, finally and ultimately, until hundreds of years after the books themselves had first been produced.
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For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.
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Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.
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“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
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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.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.
