Quotes about booking page 10
“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
Attributed to Keillor in The Miracle of Language (1999) by Richard Lederer, p. 149, this statement also appears in What? (1988) by Ronald Silliman, p. 28:
A book is a gift you can open again and again especially when you're writing it yourself.
Disputed
Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
Francine Prose (1947) American writer
Source: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 177
“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”
Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs
Source: Daddy-Long-Legs
“that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.”
Wally Lamb book I Know This Much Is True
Source: I Know This Much Is True
“What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
“Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
Carl Sagan book Cosmos
42 min 33 sec
Variant: A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Persistence of Memory [Episode 11]
Context: What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
“Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.”
Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist
Source: My Reading Life
Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot
Variant: There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
Source: The Marriage Plot
“She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.”
Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot
Source: The Marriage Plot
“He said it was the kind of book you made your own.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”
Mickey Spillane (1918–2006) American writer
“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Matagorda/The First Fast Draw
“Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
Source: The Fry Chronicles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
“Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
“When I was your age, television was called books.”
William Goldman book The Princess Bride
Source: The Princess Bride
“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”
Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author.”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
“If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.”
Beverly Cleary (1916) American writer of children's books
Patricia Briggs book Hunting Ground
Source: Hunting Ground
Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road
Source: 84, Charing Cross Road
Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer
Variant: No Man Is An Island; Every Book Is A World.
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.”
Joseph Delaney (1945) British writer
Source: Night of the Soul Stealer
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934: Vol. 1
Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast
Variant: Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.
Source: A Moveable Feast
“What an author doesn't know could fill a book.”
Holly Black book Lucinda's Secret
Source: Lucinda's Secret
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
Guide to Kulchur (1938), p. 55
Variant: Man reading shd. be man intensely alive. The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”
Mark Haddon (1962) English writer and illustrator
“When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.”
Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist
Source: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
“One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.”
Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell
Source: The Indigo Spell
Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail