Quotes About Books

While doing an enquiry on renowned horror author, "Edgar Allen Poe" I was astonished to notice how more successful his biographical books sold compared to his own books.

You Don't Have To Be The Best Writer In The World To Become A Successful Author. However, You Do Need To Sell Lots of Books.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I'm a librarian.

For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

Suddenly, it seems obvious to me: Only fantasy books can make sense of the skewed reality in which I live.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

Boys, books, school, looking good, music, gossip, food, twitter and problems. A girl's daily routine.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Not every answer of Life is found in books. Life is the greatest teacher, It educates by experience and examples.

Mon plaisir ne serait plus dans le monde mais dans la littérature.

And certainly there were many others besides my grandmother and Albertine from whom I had assimilated a word, a glance, but of whom as individual beings I remembered nothing; a book is a great cemetery in which, for the most part, the names upon the tombs are effaced. Sometimes, on the other hand,

Ce que je reproche aux journaux, c'est de nous faire faire attention tous les jours à des choses insignifiantes tandis que nous lisons trois ou quatre fois dans notre vie les livres où il y a des choses essentielles.