Quotes About Books

To play this iconic character from this historically wonderful series of books - who wouldn't take that opportunity and be happy about it? I'm happy to be Hodor forever.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

As a parent I know how challenging it can be to identify the right books and how rewarding it can be when you do find the right fit.

I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.

I would read all day if I could.

I used to say that if I could get paid to read books, my life would be made.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.

To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations.

Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

I don't put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and that is I like to build images and be a creative reader, and so I write that way.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

The canon is dominated by books written by men, about men, and for men - the male voice is therefore not a particularly difficult one to impersonate.

The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I'm reading on the lower shelf, but more importantly, it's where I keep a collection of ghost books.

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.