Books
I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them — he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton — and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.
Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax', I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.
I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers — as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
I never feel lonely if I've got a book — they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
'Classic'. A book which people praise and don't read.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.
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