About Books Quotes

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

If you are good, they say you are weak.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

I read like the flame reads the wood.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

Of course I loved books more than people.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.