Quotes About Books

Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

I love to read. I have a Kindle, and it's nice to be able to download books that people refer.

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.

The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Mother, what am I going to do?' Beezus demanded. 'It's checked out on my card and I'm responsible. They won't let me take any more books out of the library, and I won't have anything to read, and it will all be Ramona's fault. She's always spoiling my fun and it isn't fair!' Beezus didn't know what she would do without her library card. She couldn't get along without library books. She just couldn't, that was all.

As a child I very much objected to books that tried to teach me something. I just wanted to read for pleasure, and I did.

Miss Binney stood in front of her class and began to read aloud from Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, a book that was a favorite of Ramona's because, unlike so many books for her age, it was neither quiet and sleepy nor sweet and pretty.

Mother, what am I going to do? Beezus demanded. It's checked out on my card and I'm responsible. they won't let me take any more books out of the library, and I won't have anything to read, and it will all be Ramona's fault. She's always spoiling my fun and it isn't fair! Beezus didn't know what she would do without her library card. She couldn't get along without library books. She just couldn't, that was all.

Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary