Books Quotes
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Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
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Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.
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Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors. Books are not like people. Books are safe.
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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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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... 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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I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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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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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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The books we are required to teach frequently have nothing to do with anything except the fact that they have always been taught, or that there is an oversupply of them, or that some committee or other was asked to come up with some titles.
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My books are so tame!
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In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
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I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
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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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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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Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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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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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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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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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
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I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.
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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.
