More quotations tagged with “books”
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
—Bell Hooks
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
—Austin Phelps
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
—Arnold Lobel
There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.
—Anna Quindlen