If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
- Sherman Alexie
My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very nice, is it?" He wandered toward the window, pausing to examine the stacks of books on her bedside table, and then the bed itself. He waved a hand at the ropes. "Do you often sleep tied to the bed?
- Cassandra Clare
For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.
- Ernest Hemingway
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.
- James Lane Allen
Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
- Maxim Gorky
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.
- Isabel Allende
I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.
- Kevin J Anderson
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
- Norman Ralph Augustine
But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca. Do you know who he was? He was a Roman philosopher who wrote letters to imaginary friends
telling them how to behave for the rest of their lives.. Maybe that sounds dull, but the letters aren't they're witty. I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
- Ray Bradbury
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
- Ray Bradbury
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.
- Brandon Sanderson
Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian..."Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?"
Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy convinced that it was for a school project, and she really did not have to telephone Kami's parents.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
-- Joseph Brodsky
- Welwyn Wilton Katz
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
- Louise Brown
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, "Tarzan and the Lost Empire", there are 31 books on my list.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
I always considered myself a loner.
I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn't feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn't like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.
- Jim Butcher
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.
- Orson Scott Card
Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
- Emile M Cioran
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
- Emil Cioran
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.
- Michael Connelly
Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.
- J A Konrath
Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.
- Virginia Woolf
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books.
- Graham Greene
The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.
- Cory Doctorow
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
- Ursula K Le Guin
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.
- Henry James
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
- George Orwell
Until 1905, it remained an offence for anyone in the Orthodox Church to convert from it to another faith or to publish attacks on it. All books on religion and philosophy had to pass through the Church's censors. There was, moreover, whole range of moral and social issues where the Church's influence remained dominant and sometimes even took precedence over the secular authorities
- Orlando Figes
I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.
- Janet Fitch
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.
- James Patterson
The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.
- Cornelia Funke
I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
- Neil Gaiman
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
- Neil Gaiman
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.
- Clifford Geertz
I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.
- Benny Green
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
- Mark Haddon
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
- Joe Haldeman
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" Tink's titties!" Jenks from any of Kim Harrison's books on The Hollows. (aka Cincinnati,OH)
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- Kim Harrison
If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
- Werner Herzog
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
- Laura Hillenbrand
Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
- Christian Slater
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.
- Aldous Huxley
What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together, and they would not trust or want to listen to one another; but each is a piece of a stained-glass whole without which I couldn't make sense to myself, or to the world outside.
- Pico Iyer
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.
- John Jakes
Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.
- Jarod Kintz
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -
- Jack Kerouac
I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.
- Barbara Kingsolver
All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.
- Tim Lahaye
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
- Charles Lamb
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
- Joseph Lancaster
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.
- C S Lewis
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only...
The re-reader is looking not for actual surprises (which can come only once) but for a certain surprisingness. The point has often been misunderstood...In the only sense that matters the surprise works as well the twentieth time as the first. It is the quality of unexpectedness, not the fact that delights us.
- C S Lewis
This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.
- Alberto Manguel
I was an "Omnivore." Like a lot of people, I didn't know any better. Then I read a couple of books. One of them was called How Chickens Are Raped Before You Eat Them. Another was called Hotdogs and Fingertips. I also read The Cow Feces Dilemma as well as Barf, STDs and Veal.
- Demetri Martin
I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
- Steve Martin
No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including all the lost books and the ones that the authors burned when they came back from the last publisher.
- Evelyn Waugh
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
- Bette Midler
I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
- Alexander Mcqueen
Seriously, though, I look at the books on my shelves and it's clear that I read them, back then, but i can't remember ever doing it, and I don't have the first idea what they might be about.
- Claire Messud
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
- Nicholas Meyer
You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
- Samantha Morton
hey its Uberunicorn here, im uploading my accountant for the first time! :D yay! im only uploading the books ive read in a short time: jan-dec, so i might not have so many books online j8st yet... - Uberunicorn, this one called cherub the recruit! Y X 3!!!
- Robert Muchamore
I've actually not read any books on time management.
- Elon Musk
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
- Liam Neeson
In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.
- Juice Newton
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
- Evita Peron
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.
- Thomas Perry
I was astonished to learn in one of these best-selling books (on church life) that the size of my church parking lot had far more to do with how things fared in my congregation than my choice of texts in preaching. I was being lied to and I knew it.
- Eugene H Peterson
Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.
- Amy Poehler
Books don't change the world, people change the world, books only change people.
- Mario Quintana
Behind the counter, I slouched on my stool in the sun and sucked up the summer as If I could hold every drop of it inside of me. As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselfs and warmed the paper and ink indside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.
- Maggie Stiefvater
As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.
- Maggie Stiefvater
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.
- Nora Roberts
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
- Jean Rostand
This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can't get fresh fruit in the shops.
- Geoff Ryman
I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.
- Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
I sometimes read books on my iPad.
- David Sedaris
I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.
- David Sedaris
If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.
- David Sedaris
But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that.
- Lisa See
Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.
- Gary Shteyngart
Our mission, is to publish books on social and cultural issues, including books on law related to those areas. We are not looking for books on, say, tax policy, etc.
- Thomas Spence
Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five stars, because stars make people - including me -- happy.
- Rebecca Stead
Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads or Fuji apples, books once consumed, do not disappear.
- John Sutherland
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
- Tom Waits
You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.
- John Waters
- Sherman Alexie
My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very nice, is it?" He wandered toward the window, pausing to examine the stacks of books on her bedside table, and then the bed itself. He waved a hand at the ropes. "Do you often sleep tied to the bed?
- Cassandra Clare
For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.
- Ernest Hemingway
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.
- James Lane Allen
Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
- Maxim Gorky
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.
- Isabel Allende
I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.
- Kevin J Anderson
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
- Norman Ralph Augustine
But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca. Do you know who he was? He was a Roman philosopher who wrote letters to imaginary friends
telling them how to behave for the rest of their lives.. Maybe that sounds dull, but the letters aren't they're witty. I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
- Ray Bradbury
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
- Ray Bradbury
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.
- Brandon Sanderson
Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian..."Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?"
Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy convinced that it was for a school project, and she really did not have to telephone Kami's parents.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
-- Joseph Brodsky
- Welwyn Wilton Katz
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
- Louise Brown
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, "Tarzan and the Lost Empire", there are 31 books on my list.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
I always considered myself a loner.
I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn't feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn't like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.
- Jim Butcher
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.
- Orson Scott Card
Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
- Emile M Cioran
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
- Emil Cioran
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.
- Michael Connelly
Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.
- J A Konrath
Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.
- Virginia Woolf
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books.
- Graham Greene
The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.
- Cory Doctorow
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
- Ursula K Le Guin
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.
- Henry James
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
- George Orwell
Until 1905, it remained an offence for anyone in the Orthodox Church to convert from it to another faith or to publish attacks on it. All books on religion and philosophy had to pass through the Church's censors. There was, moreover, whole range of moral and social issues where the Church's influence remained dominant and sometimes even took precedence over the secular authorities
- Orlando Figes
I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.
- Janet Fitch
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.
- James Patterson
The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.
- Cornelia Funke
I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
- Neil Gaiman
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
- Neil Gaiman
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.
- Clifford Geertz
I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.
- Benny Green
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
- Mark Haddon
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
- Joe Haldeman
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" Tink's titties!" Jenks from any of Kim Harrison's books on The Hollows. (aka Cincinnati,OH)
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- Kim Harrison
If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
- Werner Herzog
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
- Laura Hillenbrand
Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
- Christian Slater
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.
- Aldous Huxley
What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together, and they would not trust or want to listen to one another; but each is a piece of a stained-glass whole without which I couldn't make sense to myself, or to the world outside.
- Pico Iyer
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.
- John Jakes
Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.
- Jarod Kintz
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -
- Jack Kerouac
I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.
- Barbara Kingsolver
All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.
- Tim Lahaye
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
- Charles Lamb
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
- Joseph Lancaster
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.
- C S Lewis
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only...
The re-reader is looking not for actual surprises (which can come only once) but for a certain surprisingness. The point has often been misunderstood...In the only sense that matters the surprise works as well the twentieth time as the first. It is the quality of unexpectedness, not the fact that delights us.
- C S Lewis
This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.
- Alberto Manguel
I was an "Omnivore." Like a lot of people, I didn't know any better. Then I read a couple of books. One of them was called How Chickens Are Raped Before You Eat Them. Another was called Hotdogs and Fingertips. I also read The Cow Feces Dilemma as well as Barf, STDs and Veal.
- Demetri Martin
I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
- Steve Martin
No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including all the lost books and the ones that the authors burned when they came back from the last publisher.
- Evelyn Waugh
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
- Bette Midler
I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
- Alexander Mcqueen
Seriously, though, I look at the books on my shelves and it's clear that I read them, back then, but i can't remember ever doing it, and I don't have the first idea what they might be about.
- Claire Messud
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
- Nicholas Meyer
You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
- Samantha Morton
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- Robert Muchamore
I've actually not read any books on time management.
- Elon Musk
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
- Liam Neeson
In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.
- Juice Newton
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
- Evita Peron
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.
- Thomas Perry
I was astonished to learn in one of these best-selling books (on church life) that the size of my church parking lot had far more to do with how things fared in my congregation than my choice of texts in preaching. I was being lied to and I knew it.
- Eugene H Peterson
Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.
- Amy Poehler
Books don't change the world, people change the world, books only change people.
- Mario Quintana
Behind the counter, I slouched on my stool in the sun and sucked up the summer as If I could hold every drop of it inside of me. As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselfs and warmed the paper and ink indside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.
- Maggie Stiefvater
As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.
- Maggie Stiefvater
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.
- Nora Roberts
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
- Jean Rostand
This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can't get fresh fruit in the shops.
- Geoff Ryman
I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.
- Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
I sometimes read books on my iPad.
- David Sedaris
I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.
- David Sedaris
If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.
- David Sedaris
But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that.
- Lisa See
Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.
- Gary Shteyngart
Our mission, is to publish books on social and cultural issues, including books on law related to those areas. We are not looking for books on, say, tax policy, etc.
- Thomas Spence
Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five stars, because stars make people - including me -- happy.
- Rebecca Stead
Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads or Fuji apples, books once consumed, do not disappear.
- John Sutherland
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
- Tom Waits
You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.
- John Waters
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