Quotes About Books

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.

May books and nature be their early joy!

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.

Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (...) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?