Quotes About Books

Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school was clearly a good thing. But comics were more like candy, just flashy wrappers without any nourishment. Cheap thrills.

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Some of my best moments have been in friends' libraries. They give you a sense of quiet, well-being and order that a media room does not.

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.

I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

As I kid, I read the 'Little House on the Prairie' series and was sad when I got to the last book.

Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new books to get lost in the pile.

You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.

I hope and pray that I'll be one of those fortunate people who have many, many books to write. I don't begrudge writing. I love the whole thing!

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

Regency literature was too coal-y for me, too long-winded and describey. I preferred modern books where you had to read other books explaining what the first book meant to know what happened.

When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.