Quotes About Books

Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

We've always read to the kids, every night both kids get books. That's really important, and they love books. Our daughter is obsessed with reading and books, so it's really sweet. She has her own little personal library.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

I fall for all those lists of 100 books you must read, and go out and buy most of them.

I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.

Mv mother was so literate and literary.

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

I love making books for children. Big kids, little kids, old kids and new.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.

I read a lot of Louis L'amour Western books.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

I never read lying down.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different than magazine pieces because you become a 'figure.'

The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.

I was an English major in college!