Books Quotes
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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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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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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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One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
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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 books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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I know you sometimes think that people are like books. But our lives don’t have neat logical plots, and we don’t always say beautiful, intelligent things like the characters in a novel. That’s not the way life is.
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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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But the book! The siren song of the book!
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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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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 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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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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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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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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I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.
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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 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.
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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.'
