Quotes About Books

Maybe they're not 'books,' but 'Acme Novelty Library' and 'Eightball' are two comics I can't get enough of.

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I don't watch a lot of movies. I watch theatre, read books, and observe life.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

I've read the 'Mortal Instruments' series; I was obsessed with those.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.

The book was sloppily written in many parts (the words came too quickly and too easily) and there was hardly a noun in any sentence that was not holding hands with the nearest and most commonly available adjective — scalding coffee and tremulous fear are the sorts of thing you will find throughout. Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing.

Finally he said, "I like everything that wild Irish maniac, J. P. Donleavy, ever wrote." It wasn't so much a discussion as a sharing of taste. He also liked The Agony and the Ecstasy and Lust for Life by Irving Stone.

Human nature is universial, and it endures through all cultures and epochs. This is the secret of perenniality of certain poems and books.

I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

As the reputation of books is raised not by their freedom from defect, but the greatness of their beauties, so should that of men be prized not for their exemption from fault, but the size of those virtues they are possessed of.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Some women have a weakness for shoes. i can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

books were my pass to personal freedom

You cannot embark on life, that one-off coach ride, once again when it is over, but if you have a book in your hand, no matter how complex or difficult, when you have finished it, you can, if you wish, go back to the beginning, read it again, and thus understand that which is difficult and, with it, understand life as well.

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