Elizabeth Berg Quotes

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

I’m rather apt to read old books than new.

If I could require the president to read one book, it would be Cormac McCarthy's "The Road". I gives a sense of the fragility of the world. Plus each sentence is very short -- about the length of a tweet.

Most books are three-thirds rubbish.

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight.

The 'Backlisted' podcast describes itself as 'giving new life to old books'. In each episode, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by a guest from the world of books who brings along some overlooked gem to enthuse about.

My love was always in books. I was just one of those avid readers. Films came later, but the stories were always present.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

Of all things I liked books best.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.