Quotes About Books

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

I have always come to life after coming to books.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.

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.

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven't yet been completely told.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

These books are all refreshingly clear-headed and unfashionable, free of cant and free of Kant;

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.