Quotes About Books

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter.

'Goosebumps,' actually, was a very big part of my childhood, growing up, and it inspired me to get into horror and all that good stuff.

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.

My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the character into the larger world of all my books.

Some books that I've read on the Kindle, I've been like, 'I want that on my shelf.' Because it says, 'I'm the kind of person who has read this.' The kind of books that says, 'I'm serious and intellectual and historical and race-conscious.'

Intellectuals that read a lot of books might not have been interested in Mobb Deep before 'My Infamous Life,' but now they might go, 'Who are these guys?' and check us out.

There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

We live in an age where kids are so familiar with screens, I wanted to show that with a little imagination a book can be just as interactive.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.

Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.

As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.

I'm always amazed at how books find us at the time we need them, as if there's some omniscient, benevolent librarian in the sky.

AND I WENT TO THE LIBRARY, I'M SNEAKING IN THE LIBRARY, LOOKING THROUGH THE BOOKS, AND YOU KNOW, LIKE I'M COVERING THE BOOK WITH LIKE SOMETHING ELSE. AND THEN IT'S LIKE, "ADMIRE IT, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE ROSES." . I'M LIKE, WE'R E NOT LOOKING AT THE SAME THING I TOOK PHOTOS OF IT.