About Books Quotes

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over.

...She Let Him Just Sit There and Be Happy.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

So many books, so little time.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

I love books, they're in my blood.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.