books Quotes

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have.

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.

Every author has to eventually write a food book.