Books Quotes
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Every person who reads your book will be far more likely to be on your side. Books are the most intensive of all current media. People are willing to spend hours and hours with a book.
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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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Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.
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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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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
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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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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.
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Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of 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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In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
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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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Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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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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I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.
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All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.
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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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No one knows why books do well.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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It seems obvious to me that the more queer books there are in the wolrd, the more queer kids we reach with the message that they are not alone, the fewer LGBT kids become one of these grim statistics.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
