Book Trust Indicators

Table of Contents

• Value and Importance of Books
• Books as a Reflection of Character
• Social Aspects and Interactions with Books
• Personal Relationships with Books
• Books and Judgement
• Books as a Source of Learning and Knowledge
• Books and Entertainment
• Books and Culture
• Books and Relationships
• Other

Value and Importance of Books

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

Books can teach you many nice comebacks.

You respect books by using them, not leaving them alone.

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Never trust people who've only got one book.

Ordinary people don’t know how much books can mean to someone who’s cooped up.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they’re amiable and sometimes not.

When I meet someone who says they’re not “much for books,” I can guarantee that they haven’t met the right book yet.

I think one thing I’ve learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.

There are plenty of people who, you know – people who still like the smell of books.

Books as a Reflection of Character

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

I absolutely look at people’s bookshelves. And I have some judgment. I mean, they’re openly showing you themselves.

I think the way people treat books is a bit of an indicator of their character," he says.

If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I’ll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming ‘Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?

You can tell a lot about a person by the book they’re carrying.

You can tell almost as much about a person by what kinds of books they haven't read as you can by those that they have.

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That’s the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haven’t you noticed, Watanabe? You and I are the only real ones in the dorm. The other guys are crap.

People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you’re better than them, and they get resentful.

I don’t mean to sound puffed up, but I think – I believe, anyway, that there were boys who might have wanted to court me if I’d given them any encouragement. But I was shy, and none of them seemed to have so great an advantage over books as to be worth the effort.

Social Aspects and Interactions with Books

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh."[Afterword]

A book at the table, just as in all places, is never rude.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long. Had I never learned to like books, I would have become the dullest sort of hermit.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

There ain’t nobody in the world like book people. It’s a business of gentlemen and gentlewomen.

People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you’re better than them, and they get resentful.

You are always better off to read a book, anyway, than to meet the person behind it.

Personal Relationships with Books

There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I’m buying a new book to read, I’ll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I’ll think that one is meant to go home with me. I’ll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I’ll always go one behind.

When I meet someone who says they’re not “much for books,” I can guarantee that they haven’t met the right book yet.

It was always wise to be polite to books, whether or not they could hear you.

I don’t mean to sound puffed up, but I think – I believe, anyway, that there were boys who might have wanted to court me if I’d given them any encouragement. But I was shy, and none of them seemed to have so great an advantage over books as to be worth the effort.

Books and Judgement

I absolutely look at people’s bookshelves. And I have some judgment. I mean, they’re openly showing you themselves.

If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I’ll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming ‘Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?

You can tell a lot about a person by the book they’re carrying.

You can tell almost as much about a person by what kinds of books they haven't read as you can by those that they have.

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That’s the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haven’t you noticed, Watanabe? You and I are the only real ones in the dorm. The other guys are crap.

People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you’re better than them, and they get resentful.

They read all the books, but they can’t find the answers.

Books as a Source of Learning and Knowledge

Books can teach you many nice comebacks.

You respect books by using them, not leaving them alone.

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

You can tell a lot about a person by the book they’re carrying.

I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It’s strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.

They read all the books, but they can’t find the answers.

I think one thing I’ve learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.

What do you do with a textbook case when no one’s written the textbook?

Books and Entertainment

Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!

Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you.

People that read fucking books don't take action!

Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.

They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that?

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they’re amiable and sometimes not.

You can’t eat books, sweetheart.

It’s hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I’m so close to them.

Books and Culture

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh."[Afterword]

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

There ain’t nobody in the world like book people. It’s a business of gentlemen and gentlewomen.

There are plenty of people who, you know – people who still like the smell of books.

Books and Relationships

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long. Had I never learned to like books, I would have become the dullest sort of hermit.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

There ain’t nobody in the world like book people. It’s a business of gentlemen and gentlewomen.

I don’t mean to sound puffed up, but I think – I believe, anyway, that there were boys who might have wanted to court me if I’d given them any encouragement. But I was shy, and none of them seemed to have so great an advantage over books as to be worth the effort.

Other

They're book addicts.

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

Borrowing a book and not returning it is the height of all rudeness.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.

I’d want them to know that everyone has their own rules for living and few people actually live by them all. So, although I may not have lived up to all of my rules and expectations in this book, I’d want them to know that I tried, and the reason I tried was for them, and if I broke them, they were broken with the best of intentions.

Books can be mirrors, too, offering a reflection of our worst selves for appraisal; lessons tucked between the pages, just waiting to be learned.

They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.

the general public enjoys reading any book, of any kind, that is being read by the public generally, through much that herd instinct for doing what everybody else is doing, which exalts sane women upon three-inch heels, and attaches buttons to the sleeves and coat-tails of presumably intelligent men.

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality,’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything. Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. I tried book after book. Surely, out of all those books, there was one.

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I'd be the most ruthless pimp you ever met. Whap the girls on the butts and send them off to their tricks as fast and often as I can.

Taxi-drivers in Frankfurt are said to dislike the annual Book Fair because literary folk, instead of being shuttled to prostitutes like respectable members of other convening professions, prefer to stay in their hotels and fuck one another

I'm not really a book person.""That might be the most idiotic thing you've ever said to me.

Not everyone is fodder for books,' said Rosalind.

And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.

Nobody understood why opposites attracted, and anybody who said they did was probably selling a book.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haven't you noticed, Watanabe? You and I are the only real ones in the dorm. The other guys are crap.

Do all of your rules pertain to books? I suppose I understand why, since your social shortcomings mean books are your closest friends." He momentarily seemed taken aback at his own rudeness.Jane narrowed her eyes. "Are you sure your true E∂ian form isn't a jackass?

Booksellers in the gross are taken for little better than a pack of knaves and atheists.

You can't eat books, sweetheart.

Well, you mind you manners and don't raise your voice. You know what your mamma used to say. Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

Books speak plain when counselors blanch.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works

Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

These guys can look at our books just as we can look at their books.

I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.

You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access to time travel equipment or anything, just makes me want to bang my forehead gently against a tree for half an hour. Is it too much to ask people to think?

We take the book everywhere we go. It's not just my husband ? we're a 'Chicken Soup' family, I guess.

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

Once we've taken on somebody we generally try to stick with them for at least two or three books to see if they will develop, if they will grow.

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

Some people thought, 'You must be joking. Here in this community, people ask for clothes, but to ask for books!'

If I'm watching television and the cable goes out, I tell myself, 'OK, I'll read a book. Family matters, not possessions.'

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

It’s better to have your nose in a book, than in someone else’s business.

Some have brains, so they get a book! Others are feather-brained, so they get a broom!

You know what, kid? You need to get over yourself. You work in a bookstore. You don’t make the books. You don’t write the books and if you were any good at reading the books, you probably wouldn’t work in a bookstore. So wipe that judgmental look off your face and tell me to have a nice day.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone’s assets, no matter how much on display they were.

They’re book addicts.

Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment.

In a novel, it’s hard to keep track of everybody.

I’ve never understood people who grind through a book they don’t really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.

I don’t do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don’t really like to be foisted upon.

I always say, ‘Books beat boredom,’ said Amanda wisely.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don’t have to seek them out and spend time with them.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you’re an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you’re probably under a restraining order.

You’re just mad because I came up with a better filing system for your books than you could,” said Sumi, sounding unruffled. “Anyway, you didn’t mean it. I am the sunshine in your sky, and you’d miss me if I was gone.

If somebody writes a book and doesn’t care for the survival of that book, he’s an imbecile.

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