Quotes About Books

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

To Succeed You Must Read

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

I was, after all, the daughter of a man who believed that to be involved with books was to live at the heart of light, and the former wife of a man who shared his faith.

I had read some books on the Baha'i Faith. I had read - I was looking into Buddhism and trying to understand sort of the agnostic approach, so there was just a bunch of stuff I was just looking at.

For Mallarmé, the perfect book was one whose pages have never been cut, their mystery forever preserved, like a bird's folded wing, or a fan never opened.