Quotes about Books

A home without books is a body without soul.

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.

It's literature. It's all books. There are good books and bad books. Literary fiction can be bad, and so can sci-fi. Sci-fi can be wonderful and so can literary fiction. As long as it's a good book, who cares? Hold my attention; that's all I ask. Make me believe.

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you.

Less than 3% of newly published authors make enough in royalties and advances to be happy to live on.)

Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist.