Books Quotes
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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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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.
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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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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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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 find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.
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The search for the Torah codes is rooted in the unfathomable theological premise that the Torah - itself a set of five books of limited length - contains literally all truth.
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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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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 precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”
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Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.
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When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.
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There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
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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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Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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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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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.
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I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
