Quotes About Books

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

Literature has guided me through my whole life.

I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit.

Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshelf.

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

I'm not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway through a book once. It was 'The Client' by John Grisham, which was quite interesting.

Oh, fierce librarians, then? Tell you to shush and that sort of thing?

Books help us anchor our souls, or re-anchor them; particularly for us, the left-handed, given the things we have to do.

You are a fierce Librarian, aren't you?

your librarians go into battle?" "When they must," said Lirael. "The Library is very old, and deep, and contains many things that have been put away for good reason. Creatures, dangerous knowledge, artifacts made not wisely, but too well . . . books that should not be opened without proper preparation, some books that should never be opened at all." "Creatures?

There was magic and power in the type. . . . You could never truly finish reading such a book, for the contents changed at need at the original maker's whim, or to suit the phases of the moon or the patterns of the weather. Some of the books had contents you couldn't even remember till certain events might come to pass. Invariably, this was an act of kindness from the creator of the book, for such contents invariably dealt with things that would be a burden to recall with every waking day.

Er, your librarians go into battle?" "When they must," said Lirael. "The Library is very old, and deep, and contains many things that have been put away for good reason. Creatures, dangerous knowledge, artifacts made not wisely, but too well . . . books that should not be opened without proper preparation, some books that should never be opened at all." "Creatures?

she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well. "We

You know how teachers are. If they get you to take out a book they love too, they're yours for life.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

I wish I had a dollar for every hour I've spent in the library, he always says. I have to agree- we'd probably never have to worry about money again.

The most, MOST important thing is to read. Read all the time; read when they tell you not to read, what they tell you not to read, read with a flashlight under the covers, read on the bus, standing on a corner, waiting for a friend, in the dentist's waiting room. Read every minute you can. READ LIKE A WOLF EATS. Read. 

So now I don't feel normal unless I've got a book in my hands, and I feel the most normal when I'm lost in a story and can ignore the complicated situations around me that never seem to work out as neatly as they do in books.

Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.