Books Quotes
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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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I believe in books.
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But the book! The siren song of the book!
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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
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And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
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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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One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
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I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.
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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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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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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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The abundance of books is distraction
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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What you are he said, is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends, and you need someone not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you will always be all right.
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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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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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Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.
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Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.
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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned books, just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
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It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
