Quotes About Books

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.

I asked what you love, you said, 'Anything with words.'

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books that I write - and it's the only kinds of books I'm capable of writing.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

I read everything and anything. I love books.

I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they've made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.

The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower.

And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

Never buy hardcover books. They are designed to sell to those who don't actually read. Along with books, many other things can be read: natural scenery, love, officialdom, business¡­

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.