Quotes About Books

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

I never even had the time to read novels.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.