Books Quotes
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I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.
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Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.
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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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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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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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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.
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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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The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
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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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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
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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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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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Master books, but do not let them master you.
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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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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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The books we are required to teach frequently have nothing to do with anything except the fact that they have always been taught, or that there is an oversupply of them, or that some committee or other was asked to come up with some titles.
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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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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.
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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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Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
