Books Quotes
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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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I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'
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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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Master books, but do not let them master you.
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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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Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake.
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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.
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I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.
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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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The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
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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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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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The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
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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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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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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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There are great books in this world and great worlds in 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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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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... 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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If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level.
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
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I know you sometimes think that people are like books. But our lives don’t have neat logical plots, and we don’t always say beautiful, intelligent things like the characters in a novel. That’s not the way life is.
