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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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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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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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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Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
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What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.
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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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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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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
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I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
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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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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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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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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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My books are so tame!
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They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
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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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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 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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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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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 great books in this world and great worlds in 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.
