Books Quotes
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What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.
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Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
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Being poor is only romantic in books.
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They are likely to have less educated parents who own fewer books and talk to them less from the time they are infants—a gap that’s been estimated at 30 million words by the time they start kindergarten.
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Like books, artists have their fates.
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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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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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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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I’ve always preferred autumn, the season of rededication, when one experiences that same thrill in the breast that one gets walking into a vast library with its smells of old pages and oiled banisters. All those books still to be read. All those centuries of knowledge. Feeling humbled within the context of all that intelligence—but at the same time, elevated. Made part of something larger.
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
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I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'
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Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.
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Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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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 have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.
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There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.
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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
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The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.
