Books Quotes
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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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There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
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The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about."
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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I believe in books.
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I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.
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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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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
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I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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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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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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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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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 have published so many books in so many years. I can't complain about any lack of attention. But I've never been placed as a Southern writer, which I really am. So I was happy finally to be published by someone in the South.
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The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
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The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.
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Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
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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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You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
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The people she admired in his books were people who walked away from the lives that other people expected them to live—Ellen in his first novel, the bohemian painters in his second.
