Books Quotes
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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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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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Master books, but do not let them master you.
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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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 have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
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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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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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Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
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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 think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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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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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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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
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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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My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
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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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Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.
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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
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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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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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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.
