Quotes About Books

Books alone were not adequate preparation for life - as Mary was herself discovering. And by pointing this out, she was pointing a finger at those, like her father and Shelley, who sometimes insisted otherwise

some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need ever be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

I think it is essential to promote your work, since there are over 100,000 books published each year, and readers can fall in love with books they've never heard about.

The writer must know something about the world outside books—whether his or the books of the others. At the same time, he must also be thoroughly acquainted with the world inside books. Words on a page are part of real life. They cannot be substituted for the whole, but they cannot be taken from it either.

I think I can communicate with kids because I don't try to communicate with kids. Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.

The more you read, the more you know, the more you know, the more places you will go.

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.

You have to be a speedy reader because there's so so much to read.

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

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Fiction Is My Addiction

No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

I'm naive enough to believe that society will be changed by examination of ideas through books and the press and that information can prove to be greater than the dissemination of stupidity.

The more that you read, the more things you know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The more that you read the more you will know the more you know the more places you'll go

One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of the night.

Books come in all shapes and sizes – as do writers – and sometimes those books you think you are going to love, you don't, while sometimes books you think are not worth picking up turn out to be some of the best you have ever read.

We walked together in the pages of those paperbacks and marched right out of the pages to walk – and eventually march – together in the streets.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

The business of books is the business of life.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.