About Books Quotes

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

Nobody steals books but your friends.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

I always have a few different books going at once.

I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

There is no place like home.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

The simplest science book is over my head.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

With a book he was regardless of time.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

Home is where your books are.

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.