About Books Quotes

Oh my, " she said as though to herself. "The rumors are true, you have been kept in the dark.

Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature.

Take my books away, and I should be desperate!

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other

If I'm moving too fast or coming on too hard...

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

I've never seen anyone as beautiful as you, sweetheart. All supple and voluptuous, a mountain of curves I can't wait to climb.

I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime.

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

See, I didn’t turn into a monster. You’re safe here with me, Daisy. I control that part because I don’t allow it like he does.

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

He watched her walk away with a sway in her hips that tossed her long, milk-chocolate-colored ponytail from side to side.

A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say.

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

I look at her face, so content, so happy. Even more beautiful all flushed with passion and think of how lucky a man I really am.

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

She still thought Sebastian planned to leave her. She had no idea he was contemplating keeping her for

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing

Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it's not my genre.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

As a children’s minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there’s a simple prayer that, whoever’s reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior

True Courage is when you are afraid of something but go through with it anyway

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you special, too!

Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart.

Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!

A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan, for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy.

Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.

I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.

Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

That's when I remember if you have a choice, always ask friends to leave in a very nice voice.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.

We all need good manners, like our friends from the zoo!

I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.

I love to teach children science.

Everything you need to know to enjoy your trip to Italy is in my Conversational Italian for Travelers books!

The best part of traveling is finding yourself.

Angel of Fire is about an ordinary boy to whom extraordinary things happen

Children act on the words they hear.May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.May your words inspire and challenge children to fulfill their true potential.