Songs are more powerful than books.
History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.
Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we spend together at the kitchen table, the more how-to books appear in the stores and on our bookshelves. But reading such books is a very different thing than listening to someone' s lived experience. Because we have stopped listening to each other we may even have forgotten how to listen, stopped learning how to recognize meaning and fill ourselves from the ordinary events of our lives. We have become solitary; readers and watchers rather than sharers and participants.
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.
I should have written books instead of reading them.
And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.
Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag.
He asked <. . . > Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <. . . > I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.
Nobody steals books but your friends.
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.