Quotes about Books, page 2

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about books

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about books

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Quote by Michael Caine about books

I often reread books I have written.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about books

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Quote by Albert Camus about books

I buy way too many books.

Quote by Orson Scott about books

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Quote by Orson Scott about books

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books

I do see it as forming a continuum with the earlier books. It shares some of the same themes, in particular that of the friendship between a gay man and a straight man.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books

I hope it will appeal to people who haven't read the other books or people who thought they wouldn't be interested in them.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books

It probably reaches deep down into my childhood history as a geek, being interested in comic books and getting nowhere with girls. Those two things going hand-in-hand.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books

It's about comic books, and in my greatly enlarged recent experience it's become clear that women have a very negative attitude toward comic books. They didn't grow up reading them, for the most part.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books

There was a Jewish element to all that, and the creators of all these golden age comic books, many of them were Jewish kids.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

Quote by Agatha Christie about books

The '70s was a lost time for me. I looked at different religious or spiritual leaders. I read a lot of books with a Buddhist background.

Quote by Julie Christie about books

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Quote by Winston Churchill about books

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Quote by Charles Dickens about books

A home without books is a body without soul.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about books

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about books