“… an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.”

“I wanted to build walls around him, I wanted to separate inside from outside, I wanted to give him an infinitely long blank book and the rest of time.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”

Brad Paisley (1972) American country music singer

“The number of books is infinite.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“[…] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

“I should infinitely prefer a book…”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

“The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ”

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