Quotes About Books

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.

If you see in all my books, I have two key intentions. One is obviously to entertain and make sure that the reader has a good reading experience. I also try to write on subjects that nobody has dealt with before to make my works different from other page turners.

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for being the best student in a number of subjects. The pile included several 60-leaved notebooks that I decided to fill with short stories.

In the battle of substance over flash, few to none of the Al Jazeera correspondents are recognizable to U.S. audiences. Many have foreign names and accents; none have best-selling books atop the list or can be heard pounding their shoes on the nightly infotainment podium.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.

Many individuals do not buy many books or go to many art museums, but the passion for music is widespread and nearly universal.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.

Roger Høibakk flirte og tenkte i det stille at han var heldig som hadde holdt seg unna familielivet. I kriminallitteraturen hadde aldri, eller nesten aldri, etterforskere familie, i alle fall ikke unger. Hverken i bøkene til Kim Småge, Gunnar Staalesen eller Anne Holt.

It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely resemble her books. Or rather, that the books in which she found its likeness were so unexciting.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

The books are real friends. Add them to the list of your best friends. They can be with us all time (happiness, sorrows, healthy, unhealthy, poor, wealthy, well salaried, jobless etc.. ). So keep them first name on your list. Even though I use them while in hospital beds only, they inspiring me.. inspiring only.

Les livres sont ce que nous avons de meilleur en cette vie, ils sont notre immortalité.

Like no one else... you share that part of my mind that associates itself mostly with ideal things and places... The impression thinking about you gives me is very closely linked with that given me by a lonely hillside or a sunny afternoon... or books that have meant more to me than I can explain... This is grand, but still it isn't enough for this world... The earthly and obvious part of me longs to see and touch you and realise you as tangible.

Writing is architectural. Letters become words, and words become sentences, and sentences become paragraphs, and paragraphs become chapters and chapters become books.

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.

Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.

I think there is nothing more completely beautiful and more beautifully complete than walls lined with well-arranged books.

Books are left untouched. Fanaticism became our trait.. Now more than ever we let others feed our minds and we became the zombie society walking around without purpose, without care, without vision.