Book Quotes

No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.

I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal her instrumentals.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.

I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

We don’t truly know anyone or everything if we did, we wouldn’t need books.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.