Books Quotes
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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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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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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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Master books, but do not let them master you.
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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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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 are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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Before Five Kingdoms is complete, I will begin work on the sequel series to my Fablehaven books. It will be called Dragonwatch. I’m excited to share more stories about the characters of Fablehaven including Kendra, Seth, Newel, Doren, Warren, Bracken, Vanessa, Raxtus, etc. If you’re liking Five Kingdoms but haven’t tried Fablehaven, you should get to know those people! If you’d like to connect.
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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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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 precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”
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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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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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... 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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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 priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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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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I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.
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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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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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The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
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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.
