Quotes About Books

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.

I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'

My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.

My house is filled with boxes of books.

I wasn't brave enough to read the R. L. Stine book series when I was younger. But my brother read as many of them as he could.

All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.

The main problem with people not reading to their children is the lack of a bridge between schools and families, so that children don't see books and learning as a separate part of life.

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.

School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.

I'm bringing reading back. I'm making reading great again!

When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

Seriously, I feel more like a revolutionary because the final goal is not only to download all the articles and books and give open access to them, but to change legislation is such a way that free distribution of research papers will not face any legal obstacles.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.