Books Quotes

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

I've actually not read any books on time management.

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.