Quotes About Books

A remarkably disciplined scholar, Jefferson spent money on books the way less purposeful young men spent it on whiskey or women.

Mark Twain's words: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

items that have become part of me, foliage that has grown to conceal the bare stem of my real personality, what I was like before I ever saw these books, or any book at all, come to that.

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.

An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it "reading".

With me being the bookworm I am, it might seem queer that I didn't go to the library sooner than I did. But books were a nice thing in my life, a luxury and a reminder of better times, and I didn't want to start letting nice things back into my world until I thought there was at least a chance of making it through the next couple of days.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.

According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China.

Neal Shusterman is a phenomenal writer, he's known for his young-adult books.

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.

People will say, 'I really don't like romance,' or, 'I don't read it - at all!' So how do they know? Weirdly, I think that the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' phenomenon introduced women to romance who would never have read it. And that means that they then go on to read my books, and that would be great.

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.

I don't read enough books, so I guess I'm pretty shallow. I'm a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.

The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.