Quotes About Books

I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

'New Moon' was such a serious, depressing movie that people felt we had lost a little humor of the books.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.

Americans get fatter and fatter and buy more and more diet books, but you don't lose weight by buying diet books - you go on a diet. It's easy to read a diet book, but it's hard to go on a diet.

I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's great. That's more or less how I rediscovered the Holmes books.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

The simple fact is, the more people who buy your books, the more are likely to read you. That's what I'd like to see happen.

I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.

Even my Mormon sister checks my rankings on Amazon.com.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, 'The Mortal Instruments.'

I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

I used to teach at the Columbia journalism school, and I would tell my students that every book has to have a sentence that motivates it.

All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did not breathe or think, but they grew and gave a sense of potential so much larger than whatever was written on their pages.

Well, right now,' she said, 'I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like... I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.' 'A book?' I said. 'An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll ick it up and start reading.

He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when he grew angry at writers for writing them. He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.

From 1776 to 1976 just five books reigned over economics in nearly unbroken succession: Smith's Wealth of Nations, Ricardo's Principles, Mill's Principles, Marshall's Principles, and Samuelson's Economics. What they lack in imaginative titles, they make up in endurance.