Book Quotes - Page 68

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

We read books to find out who we are.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.