Quotes About Books

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry.

All her life, Sophie had been taught that books are precious. Each one holds people and worlds. Each one is a piece of someone's heart and mind that they chose to share. They were shared dreams.

She'd also liked being within a wall of books. There, she'd felt as close to safe as she could remember

What's that?" Ethan asked. "It's a book," Monster said. "I know it's a book. I meant, how's it supposed to help?" "Most answers can be found in books," Monster said solemnly. "As a wise man who wasn't Eleanor Roosevelt once said, 'Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.