Quotes About Books

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

Home is where your books are.

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.

I like home. It's warm and there are books.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle?

Reading gave me hope.

The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.