Quotes About Books

David Walliams

David Walliams

Soon they would spend all day there, locked up inside the truck, reading undisturbed. There were no windows but there were thousands of windows, in every book on every shelf.

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark. As you are not, I will simply bid you farewell and leave you to your fresh and obviously debilitating grief.' He said this last with a contemptuous glance at the Italian books piled on my desk and strode from the room.

He was entirely happy alone. He had his books and his music and his specimens, and that was all he needed. He also carried on a wide correspondence. His friends were far flung across the globe, but none of them intimate.

I'm more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice.

There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

Music and books stir up emotions. They make feelings rise and clatter and wreck, and sometimes that's dangerous. But music can make you rise up and clatter and destroy when you need to, too.

Blessed books--they're a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It's the silence, sure, but it's also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It's the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion.

More, much more, will happen after this. Things involving maps and books and true love and tragedy, tragedy like you wouldn't believe. But fine things too. The best ones.

Nash knows what it means to give your favorite books- it's like handing over a piece of yourself and asking the person to understand it, maybe even treasure it.

Anxiety is like being in freeway traffic all the time. There's the constant sense of dodging and darting, seeking your chance to cut in, the irritation of others pulling ahead of you. You hit the accelerator; slam the brakes. You scout and scan for danger. Here, though, there is no traffic and no freeway. There is gentle company and books on shelves. There is quiet. There's fun. Dawn Celeste has a laugh that sounds like a pot bubbling over. Everyone gets to do as they wish.

There is no friend like a book there is no beauty like a kind heart.

Spirituality is for people. It's not just for those who you might have read about in books, it's for people.

a room without boooks like a body without soul

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don't do that with any other artists.

(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.