Quotes About Books

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the Financial Times.

Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books.

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The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.

I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, where I have a comfortable couch, a lamp and two dogs to keep me warm.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

Por qué cree que abrir una librería es inverosímil?-le gritó al viento-. ¿La gente de Hadborough no quiere comprar libros? -Han perdido el deseo por las cosas raras -dijo (...)-. (...) Y no me diga usted que los libros no constituyen una rareza en sí mismos. (La librería)

Opening the shop gave her, every morning, the same feeling of promise and opportunity. The books stood as neatly ranged as Gipping's vegetables, ready for all comers.

Por qué cree que abrir una librería es inverosímil?-. ¿La gente de Hardborough no quiere comprar libros? -Han perdido el deseo por las cosas raras-dijo (...). (...) Y no me diga usted que los libros no constituyen una rareza en sí mismos.