Quotes About Books

Questo è il motivo per cui mi sono tagliata i capelli. Volevo venderli per comperarmi un libro. Allora avevo paura di dirtelo, ecco perché ti parlai di orecchini. Ma è un libro, che voglio.

Books he would always learn from, for people, great people, put the best of themselves into books. Books were a distillation of people. But people would be his teachers, and people were not in schoolrooms. People were everywhere.

How can school help you with the land? he asked. An old grandfather leaned out of the shadows to make answer. Learning clears the mind, he said, and books open the spirit of man to heaven and to the earth. Do you know how to read? Il-han asked. The old man touched his wrinkled eyelids. These two eyes can see only the surface of what life is.

The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

Books are my one luxury. I have a lot of large coffee-table-size art books, in the shelves above my bed, about people like Warhol, Basquiat and Velasquez.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.

Without a doubt, I must read, all the booksI've read about.See the artworkshung on hooks, that I have only, seen in books.