Quotes About Books

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.

I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

I inhaled books. I loved Classics Illustrated comic books. These were books that I could afford to buy after I turned in pop bottles for change. 'The Prince and the Pauper,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth.' Male narratives filled with adventure and self-discovery.

I've probably written some books - I know I've written some books that were more interesting to me than to a large audience, but that was mostly when I was first getting started in academia and writing for a narrow audience.

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Denn ich ohne Bücher bin nicht ich.

Take a long soak, look over the house, my books, anything you want." He grinned at her boyishly. I have a stack of work beside the computer if you want to try your hand at looking at bids for me." "Exactly how I planned to spend my evening.

When sleep eludes you, embrace wakefulness, he told himself, and read until dawn.

The radicals assumed that acting was more important than speaking. Talking and writing books, Winstanley insisted, is 'all nothing and must die; for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing.' It is a thought worth pondering by those who read books about the seventeenth-century radicals, no less than by those who write them. Were you doers or talkers only? Bunyan asked his generation. What canst thou say?

serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books.

A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.

This is fucking magic, she thought. This isn't some story out of one of Tommy's books. This isn't something you can experiment with in the bathroom. This is not natural, and whatever I am, it isn't natural. A vampire is magic, not science.

Ella tendría que buscar la felicidad en aquel estudio con aquellos libros que eran sus verdaderos amigos, sus únicos amigos. Así estaba contenta. No tenía sentido pensar en lo que sería tener a un hombre.

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. The most importnant truth in my life,if you ask me,and he got it all right

You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls, said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. It sounds intriguing, admitted Eragon. Always the scholar, aren't you? asked Brom. Jeod shrugged. Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

Christopher Paolini

Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile. A what? asked Eragon. One who loves books, explained Jeod.

Buku seharusnya berada di tangan yang paling bisa menghargainya, dan tidak hanya diletakkan tanpa dibaca, mengumpulkan debu dalam lemari yang terlupakan.

These books are my friends, my companions.

Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf