About Books Quotes

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

All those big words produce disgust today.

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

They're book addicts.

Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

Everyone if so warm, and the children know my from the children's books. Their oldest siblings or young parents know me from "Here Comes the Groom" or "Waterboy."