Quotes About Books

I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone.

You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.

Ben ÅŸuna inan?r?m; bir insan sürekli kitap okursa yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ okuduÄŸu kitaplar yüzüne iÅŸlenir, çirkinler bile yüzlerine iÅŸlenen kitapla güzelleÅŸir, sevimlileÅŸir.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

You must remember that Baldmoney and his brothers were (as far as I know) the last gnomes left in England. Rather surprisingly, he was extraordinarily like the pictures of gnomes in fairy books, even to the pointed skin hat and long beard.

So you're a private detective. I didn't know they existed, except in books, or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors.

I kind of backed into rap music. I thought I was going to do comic books or graphic art.

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.

I rarely read children's books.

I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

'Batgirl' and 'Harley Quinn' are the first DC hit books in a while that aren't starring Batman personally, really. But some of the attempts to reach the female audience have been really depressing to me.

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

I read a bunch of books about Mengele because he was pretty sick. That was how 'Angel Of Death' came about. I know why people misinterpret it, just because we don't say Nazism is very bad. They get this knee-jerk reaction to it.

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.

Read in order to live.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'