Quotes About Books

I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.

College applications are such a huge part of senior year, yet often times you never see characters in books actually do work.

It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading.

My books are not 'political.' I don't make political demands. They actually describe life. But when we look at human life, politics creeps in everywhere.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

I'm kind of like a tween. I've read all 'Hunger Games' books in three days.

I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.

I heard you could do that—buy books by the yard, turn them into furniture. People are dumb. I'll never get over how dumb people are.

Guess what Jeff found in his cabin for me, Grete says, another book by the Martian Chronicle guy. Ray Bradburrow, Jeff says. Bradbury, I think. Yeah, right, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Grete says, It's good. She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book. It's good or it's bad, I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad - like a hot dog.

When people ask me that question that everyone asks: What do you do? I'd say, I'm in customer service, which was true. To me, it's nice day's work when you make a lot of people smile. I know that sounds too earnest, but it's true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.

How do you keep a thousand books in one room and then call the room a den?

I mean I would rather be a librarian but I worry about the job security, books may be temporary dicks are forever.

The delay in the application of the policy to books has several explanations. For one thing, Blackshirts were not, nor have they yet become, bookworms; and the intellectual bread of Mussolini himself is made, usually, of clippings. They did not care too much about things which they could not hate since they usually did not know them....

Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan's library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn't finished coloring either one of them.

In the twentieth century, science has been everything and the arts almost nothing by comparison. As a result, many artists now pretend to be scientists. They try to imitate the strategies of science. Paintings that talk. Sculpture that swims. Books that turn to ash. New formulas just like the scientist. But that isn't science of course, nor is it art. Just the end of the road.

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

The first dog I ever had was called Prince. I called him after the Black Prince. You know, the fellow who...' 'Massacred all the women and children in Limoges.' 'I don't remember that.' 'The history books gloss it over.

The Minister had a great respect for Pyle - Pyle had taken a good degree in - well, one of those subjects Americans can take degrees in: perhaps public relations or theatrecraft, perhaps even Far Eastern studies (he had read a lot of books).

A veces pienso que nuestra vida está hecha más por los libros que leemos que por la gente que conocemos: en los libros aprendemos, de segunda mano, qué es el amor y el dolor. Aun cuando tenemos la suerte de enamorarnos es porque nos hemos dejado influir por lo que hemos leído. Si yo no había llegado a conocer el amor, era porque en la biblioteca de mi padre faltaban los libros adecuados.

She had a lot to learn, in the way of books and music and how to dress and talk, but she would never have to learn humanity.

Only in childhood do books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life, we admire, we are entertained, we may modify some views we already hold, but we are more likely to find in books merely a confirmation of what is in our minds already.

In onze jeugd zijn alle boeken toekomstvoorspellingen.