Books Quotes
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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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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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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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One of books is about the genocide in Rwanda and the other book is about a little boy who gets raped. Who needs monsters?
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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 will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
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My books are so tame!
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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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…I’d have died without them books. Even now I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.
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Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
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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.
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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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Master books, but do not let them master you.
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There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.
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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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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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The best teacher is not life, but the crystallized and distilled experience of the most sensitive, reflective, and most observant of our human beings, and this experience you will find preserved in our great books and nowhere else.
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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 like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
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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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Reading creates a sense of human fellowship. It is never (or rarely) a public activity, but in putting us in direct contact with other minds and sensibilities, it is a form of solitude which banishes loneliness. It can offer the consolation of knowing we are not alone, in our pleasures or in our suffering. It is in situations of deprivation that the value of reading – the deep need for books – becomes more vividly apparent.
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Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.
