All STEPHEN FRY Quotes about “Books”

“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
“I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.'”
“Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books”
“This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
“I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.”
“Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.”
“I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. â€œExplanations?â€ I bellowed. â€œExplanations? Thereâ€™s your explanationâ€¦there!â€ I stabbed a finger dramatically towards the far corner of the room. Pathetic, really. I mean, talk about the oldest trick in the book. But itâ€™s a good book, and the trick would have been cut from subsequent editions if it didnâ€™t sometimes work.”
“I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.”
“A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.”
“[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'”
“I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.”

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