Quotes About Books

Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

Well, some books are destined never to be read,' said Mervyn. 'Its's the natural order of things.' Like women who are destined never to marry, though Ianthe.

His books distracted him for a while. They were like the aspirins you take when you've got a headache. They kill the pain for two hours and then it comes back.

Devout or not, all owned and carried Books of Hours, the characteristic fashionable religious possession of the 14th century noble.

Suddenly, Walter was aware of all the things he did not know. There were hundreds--thousands--of books in the world, and he had read only a handful of them. One day he would die, a myriad of books unread, his knowledge of the world incomplete.

Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them. I am old. Walter

One of the diseases of this age is the multitude of books. It is a thriftless and a thankless occupation, this writing of books: a man were better to sing in a cobbler?s shop, for his pay is a penny a patch; but a book-writer, if he get sometimes a few commendations from the judicious, he shall be sure to reap a thousand reproaches from the malicious.

When you're young ... you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK.

La cuestión es, supongo, que me volví adicto a leer, si se puede llamar leer a esa forma rara y acelerada de experimentar los libros, demasiada rápida para entender lo que se estaba contando o lo que significaban las frases.

Era inútil, algún demonio de la dislexia había hechizado aquellos libros, las palabras que tenía delante se resistían a encajar de forma coherente, se mantenían alejadas de mí, arraigadas en su contexto específico.

I've been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I've figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who've told me that.

The best hours of my life have been spent in a quiet corner or under a tree or on the beach with a book in my hands. I've been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I've figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who've told me that.

Every time a book opens, an angel coughs up a hairball.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition: content, ideological schema, the blurring of contradictions--these are repeated, but the superficial forms are varied: always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Let Scripture be first and most in your hearts and hands and other books be used as subservient to it.

Chissà se il gigante legge, e che cosa legge, e che cosa prova. Chissà se i libri gli cambiano la vita. O se legge solo l'universo, e non ci capisce niente.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent.

I don't think the process of writing books is in any way sensible. It's not logical, and it's not reasonable. I do write very fast, and I just do it in a binge. Other people binge-drink; I binge-write.

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.