Books Quotes
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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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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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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You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
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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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The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.
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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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We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.
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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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Books and marriage go ill together.
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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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As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times what saved me.
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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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Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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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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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 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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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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One of books is about the genocide in Rwanda and the other book is about a little boy who gets raped. Who needs monsters?
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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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Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
