Quotes About Books

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.

Any kids out there, don't base your homework on 'Merlin.' Just enjoy it and then read the books.

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.

Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future would lie with writing.

What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.

I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was 'The Secret Garden' which has a big influence on Lord Loss, believe it or not!

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

I've been reading horror since I was five years old.

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

I loved horses and horse books as a child.

I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

I know how hard authors work on their books and how far out of their element many are when it comes to doing the sales and marketing. So when I see someone doing it wrong and giving bad advice, I do my best to help - even when they're not my clients.

I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.

I'm a huge fan of reading.

I'm a huge fan of Beverly Cleary.