Books Quotes
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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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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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Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
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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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What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.
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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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I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.
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I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.
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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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Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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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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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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Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
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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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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.
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What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.
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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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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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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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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.
