Quotes About Books

I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.

I was a voracious reader and what I had learned in books confirmed that the world changes constantly and humanity evolves, but the changes are only obtained after much struggle.

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Não há nada tão insatisfatório como um fim com pontas soltas, essa tendência moderna de deixar os livros a meio.

Mi aveva convinto che al buio i personaggi lasciano le pagine e vagano per la casa; io nascondevo la testa per paura del diavolo negli specchi e di quella folla di personaggi che peregrinavano per le stanze rivivendo le loro avventure e passioni: pirati, cortigiane, banditi, streghe e donzelle. Alle otto e mezzo dovevo spegnere la luce e dormire, ma zio Pablo mi regalò una lanterna per leggere sotto le lenzuola; da allora ho una perversa inclinazione alla lettura segreta.

Seated face to face in complete relaxation, staring into each other's eyes and murmuring Sanskrit words that could send them all the way to nirvana but that generally had the opposite effect, and they would wind up slipping out of other people's sight, stretched out beneath the tall reeds in the garden, desperately making love; the books they had read by candlelight, drowning in passion and smoke...

Era a única pessoa de toda a casa que tinha uma chave para entrar no túnel de livros de seu tio e autorização para pegá-los e lê-los. Blanca acreditava que deveriam dosar a leitura, porque havia coisas que não eram adequadas à sua idade, mas seu tio Jaime afirmara que só se lê o que interessa, e, se interessa, é porque já se tem maturidade para fazê-lo.

La biblioteca está habitada por espíritus que salen de las páginas en las noches.

había aprendido en los libros que el mundo cambia constantemente y la humanidad evoluciona, pero los cambios no llegan solos, se obtienen con mucha guerra.

The only place as comforting as a friendly bookstore is probably your grandmother's kitchen. The sight of shelves packed with books of all kinds, the smell of printed paper and coffee, and the secret rustle of the characters that live in the pages warm up any heart.

I understand that through books one is able to journey. One is able to smell and taste and go into different worlds without actually leaving where you are, with your imagination. Imagination is more powerful than anything. For me, anywhere the imagination is fed, is sustained, is strengthened, then you are preparing that human being to deal with anything they face in life.

Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where the government recognises that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides a public good, but that doing so is likely to reduce sales of the book.

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing.

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world.

The readership for 'Sag Harbor' was different from people who'd read me before - it was linear and realistic, not as strange as 'The Intuitionist.' Did they carry over to 'Zone One,' a story about zombies in New York? Some, some not. I'm used to people not caring about my other books.

I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of 'Twilight Zone.' I didn't think about it.

Usually, if I can't fall asleep, you will find me catching up on a good book or zoning out with an episode of 'The Real Housewives.' I always have a couple books on my bedside table in various stages of completion.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.