Quotes About Books

Did you actually--?' Logan glanced through the play-house window. The floor was covered in Harry Potter books, as if Flurp had been making a nest out of them. 'Eat books?! Flurp would NEVER! Flurp would STARVE first!' The griffin cub let out a tiny burp that smelled of crayons.

Stories were my passion, whether they were from books, comics or cartoons. I learned them all by heart and was as familiar with the characters as if they were members of my own family.

Johnson noted that Bishop Brown not only wrote such books for adults but he also wrote books for children in order to indoctrinate them in atheism. Said Johnson, "He also issued antireligious material for children. … When I was a member of the Communist Party, the Communist Party paid special attention to the indoctrination of the youth. They in fact issued special bulletins instructing leaders and teachers with regard to the type of training for the youth.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me.

You know you have read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

These notes would one day form the foundation of a global UFO movement called "Rama," based on many books written by both Charlie and his brother Sixto about their experience.

Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books.

The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered scatter of papers and books a writer builds around himself until it acquires the cozy solidity of a nest.

insight," and the "message" of his books (which is no message at all) is similar to Gogol's in Nabokov's summary: "Something is very wrong and all men are mild lunatics engaged in petty pursuits that seem to them very important, while an absurdly logical force keeps them at their futile jobs." By reputation Portis is reclusive, yet

seem to have a very wide spectrum of readers in this country," I said.

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

A man in search of spirituality knows little, because he reads of it and tries to fill his intellect with what he judges wise. Trade your books for madness and wonder—then you will be a bit closer to what you seek. Books bring us opinions and studies, analyses and comparisons, while the sacred flame of madness brings us to the truth.

You should pay more attention to the caravan, the boy said to the Englishman, after the camel driver had left. We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination. And you ought to read more about the world, answered the Englishman. Books are like caravans in that respect.

And he returned to his books, which had never asked him for anything he could not provide. That

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I do not know when it is that the joy fades out of school for most children, so that they end not only by hating school but even worse, by hating books, and this is grave indeed, for in books alone is the accumulated wisdom of the whole human race, and to read no books is to deprive the self of ready access to wisdom.

Books, for example—she had thought of books as diversion and amusement. Now she knew they were communication between minds, her own and others, living and dead. Such communication was the source of learning and she had a thirst for learning

I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy.