Pastoral Resources

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

I often reread books I have written.

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

I buy way too many books.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.