Quotes About Books

Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

I've never adapted a book I didn't love.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

I don't take advances for my books.

The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest to me. It's the words that break your heart.

I have an affinity for a lot of things that are kind of fairy-tale-ish and bookish.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

I mostly read on airplanes and right before sleep.

I only sleep about four or five hours a night. I read all night long.

We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'

I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

Generally, I'm not anti the novel.

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

I'm not a reader myself, so I don't expect anyone else to be.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

Where was I to get a messenger who could carry my few chattels and my books? How could I pay him and the porter? Where was I to go? I repeated these unanswerable questions again and again, in tears, as madmen repeat their tunes. I fell asleep; poverty has for its friends heavenly slumbers full of beautiful dreams.

An hour later, Cartier returned with a number of beautiful flowering plants, which he placed himself in the jardinieres, covering them with fresh moss. Godefroid paid his bill; also that of the circulating library, which was brought soon after. Books and flowers! — these were the daily bread of this poor invalid, this tortured creature, who was satisfied with so little.

Lucien traversa le Pont-Neuf en proie à mille réflexions. Ce qu'il avait compris de cet argot commercial lui fit deviner que, pour ces libraires, les livres étaient comme des bonnets de coton pour des bonnetiers, une marchandise à vendre cher, à acheter bon marché.

a woman of questionable morals, a writer for the stage; frequenting theatres and actors; squandering her fortune among pamphleteers, painters, musicians, a devilish society, in short. She writes books herself, and has taken a false name by which she is better known, they tell me, than by her own. She seems to be a sort of circus woman who never enters a church except to look at the pictures.

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

I like to read books and be alone I'm not social butterfly person.

No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.