Books Quotes
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Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.
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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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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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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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And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.
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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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She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.
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My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
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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 are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.
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There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
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That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.
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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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In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
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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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Master books, but do not let them master you.
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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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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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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
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Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.
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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.
