Quotes About Books

Jamie Oliver's books are the best. I love Jamie. Bless him!

My mother was almost entirely responsible for my cultural education. She took me to the library once a week, and by the age of seven, I was reading 100 books a year.

I can't take just one book with me anywhere.

I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.

I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.

There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.

I never read one book at a time.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

I read several books at one time.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being.

I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren't supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.