Books Quotes
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Master books, but do not let them master you.
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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 don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
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The books we call the New Testament were not gathered together into one canon and considered scripture, finally and ultimately, until hundreds of years after the books themselves had first been produced.
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Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.
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While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.
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Books may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.
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That my cult of study had always seemed to her foolish, that it wasn’t books that made people good but good people who made some good books.
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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
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Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
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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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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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My books are so tame!
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I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.
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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.
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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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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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Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?
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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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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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I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing.
