Top 1200 Books For Kids Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

We're dealing with problems that kids today have now and that is a scary thing because kids nowadays, obviously, it's no-holds-barred. I'm scared to have children someday.

I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.

To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.

The great thing about kids is the immediate gratification. As soon as I get home from touring, my wife and kids become my life. There is nothing sweeter.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

I started my work on a lot of the 'Batman' books. So I've worked on a 'Batman,' 'Spider-Man,' some of the 'X-Men' books.

In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well.

My kids and wife love Chicago, especially the kids.

My aim is helping kids. Kids are the future. I love children. I'm thinking of my own childhood. I know where I'm from. If I wanted something, I couldn't get it. Life wasn't easy.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.

Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.

It is that bizarre thing. If I had kids, I, of course, would tell them there's Santa, but it's also just an odd feeling to be blatantly lying to kids.

The leader who loves books that tell him he is great and right may be worse than the leader who does not love books at all.

Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.

When I made my final reckoning with the decision not to have kids, I also decided that I would use at least some of my extra time to better the lives of kids who are already here.

I don't feel that clock ticking. I'm not really worried about it. At the same time I would like to have kids someday, but I'm not one of those people who's dying to have kids.

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don't want them to be dated.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

No offense to kids who have kids, but, ugh, I don't need that.

It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.

I want my kids to stay kids for as long as they can.

I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film.

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

I'm not setting out to adapt books and work with books, but when really amazing stories come to you in that form, it's really hard to turn away from that.

I think kids like Lurch because he's kind of an earthbound superman. They know he's physically strong and they sense that he's a gentle man who loves kids.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.

I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

It's tough to work with kids. Kids are animals!

Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on.

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.

For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids.

Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.

I've wanted to make a film about French youth since I went to Cannes with my first film 'Kids' in 1995 ... Scribe's screenplay is about French kids today, and the world today. Just like my films 'Kids' and 'Ken Park', this will be a movie like you have never seen before.