Books Quotes

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

It is over with; I am in the history books.

I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

I've always been a big fan of books.

I cannot live without books.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.