About Books Quotes

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

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.

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.

There can be no forced inspiration.

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

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

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

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

I think the reason we might hesitate to pay cash to students for doing well on tests or getting good grades or reading books is that we sense that the monetary payment is an extrinsic reward.

I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words long. Only when the text is finished ... do I begin the pictures.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

Every word, every character in a picture book must count.

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins.

i really like reading books

I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then I suddenly realized I did.

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

I would always want printed books.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

Human sympathy has its limits.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.