Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they’ve got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don’t have to pay attention to what’s going on in the world around them.
Too many books are full of recipes that aren’t doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn’t necessarily be good.
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
As winter approaches – bringing cold weather and family drama – we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It’s like my relaxation.
Movies can’t ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
I read a bunch of books about Mengele because he was pretty sick. That was how ‘Angel Of Death’ came about. I know why people misinterpret it, just because we don’t say Nazism is very bad. They get this knee-jerk reaction to it.
Don’t give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books – and by that I mean soccer books – stories about boys in school who started to play football and then became the captain. I’d read them cover to cover. I just got lost in them.
Graphic novels are all about fantasies. Superman and Batman started it. It’s like a reaction to environment around you. You desire to do things in comic books or films what you can’t do in real life.
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she’s created, but I’m not an addict of Harry Potter. I don’t feel possessive about it.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.
Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
A surprising number of people – including many students of literature – will tell you they haven’t really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
Education from six-year-old to 14 is compulsory in Nigeria, but the simple fact is that a lack of resources, coupled with peoples’ inability to afford books and uniforms mean the reality for millions of Nigerian children is a life without education.
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader’s imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
Productivity is a relative matter. And it’s really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer’s strongest books.
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.
I love picture books – with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.
Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they’re even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they’re confined.
One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
I’ve written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they’ll be in a totally different category. People won’t take them seriously. They’ll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books.
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
I am not a fan of books.
I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think I’m on the right path.
I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that’s great. I’m not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don’t get it. It seems mind-numbing to me.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Artemis women often have difficult childhoods. She’s the kid who seeks comfort in the woods, or animals, or books. If trapped in an authoritarian family, she blends in to get by – but keeps a fierce autonomy inside her head and heart, looking to the day she breaks free.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Being transgender is more than just medical books and everything, procedures. It’s something spiritual in which you’re finding yourself and really discovering who you are and learning to love yourself.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we’ve factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it’s more important that you ask the question ‘why.’
I don’t read enough books, so I guess I’m pretty shallow. I’m a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.
One sheds one’s sicknesses in books – repeats and presents again one’s emotions, to be master of them.
My mother has always encouraged me to do what I love. When I started being interested in fashion, she was very supportive, bringing me to see exhibits and buying me books. And when I started my company, she was right there to help me!
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it’s about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness – and that can make me laugh.
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children’s books, and so I did.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I’ve written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.
I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.
One of the reasons it is considered such a privilege to sit on a Man Booker jury is because it is famously rigorous. The judging is not a gig for lightweights. Not only are all five judges expected to have read all 155 books from beginning to end, but they have to be able to talk fluently about every book at length.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can’t stop to count it.
