Quotes About Books

simplest and most common forms of flow that people experience in their lives is reading a book

I realized that the collapse in reading books is in some ways a symptom of our atrophying attention, and in some ways a cause of it. It's a spiral – as we began to move from books to screens, we started to lose some of the capacity for the deeper reading that comes from books, and that in turn, made us less likely to read books.

We really only learn from books we cannot judge. The author of a book we could really judge ought surely to be learning from us.

Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.