Quotes on Book

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.

This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

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

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness.

The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.