Stephen Chbosky Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Sight, Giving

• It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Reading, Strange

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

• It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Thinking, People

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

• And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Song, Book

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

• I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Life, Teacher, Jobs

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

• What's your favorite book? "The last one I read.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Lasts, Favorite Book

• Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight.

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  Song, Book, Thinking

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

• I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Thinking, My Favorite

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

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  Friday, Book, Reading

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

• Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. I don't mean the big fraternity party kind of movie. More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain. I think something like that would be very good for him, especially if the girl were unconventionally beautiful. They are the best kind of girls, I think. I personally find 'super models' strange. I don't know why this is.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Girl, Brother

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

• More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Smart, Rain

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

• It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Heart, Broken

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

• in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them.

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  Song, Real, Book

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

• How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read." This made them laugh because they knew I meant it honest, not show-off. Then they told me their favorites, and we sat quiet.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Laughing, Scott Fitzgerald

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

• Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

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  Mother, Self Esteem, Father

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

• I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Stephen Chbosky talks “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, Blu-ray extras, and his favorite teen films". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. February 13, 2012.

• I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Writing, Directors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Silence, Good Man

• Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, People, Reason

  "INTERVIEW – Stephen Chbosky brings ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’ to moviegoers". Interview with Brent Hankins, nerdrepository.com. September 27, 2012.

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