A Book Quotes
It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.
Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!
Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.
You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.
I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.
The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.