Books Quotes
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In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
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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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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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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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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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There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.
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Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
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Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.
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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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Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
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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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My books are so tame!
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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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One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
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My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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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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I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
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I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.
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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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I’ve been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I’ve figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who’ve told me that.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
