Quotes about booking

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“When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.”

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”

“[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy… Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.”

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”

“You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid.”

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”

“I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.”

“When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.”

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

“The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at theduring the first eight pages.”

“If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature….”

“A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.”

“I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head…”

“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”

“I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.”

“Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.”

“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.”

“It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.”

“You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.”

“The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.”

“You have a book that’s also a face?”

“My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.”

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”

“What's the best part about writing a book?
Finishing it.”

“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside
a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted
to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in
for ever.”

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book (Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.”

“Coloured people don't like. Burn it. White people don't feel good about. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.”

“This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.”

“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”

“To her-
Hand in hand we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap.
Say you're surprised?
Say you like it?
Say it's just what you wanted?
Because it's yours-
because we love you.”

“Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.”

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”

“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy.”

“Books are the most tolerant of friends.”

“My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.”

“Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!”

“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”

“A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.”

“To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.”

“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”

“Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.”

“Books and beer are the best and worst defense.”

“My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.”

“I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway”

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.”

“… I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”

“Nobody steals books but your friends.”

“When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.”

“An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.”

“Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense.

Rutabaga.”

“There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.”

“If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!”

“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.”

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”

“He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.”

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.”

“Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.
Of course those who write short books have even less to say.”

“This is where you and I are headed…. Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated”

“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn”

“I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.”

“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

“Beware
Those Who
Are ALWAYS
READING
BOOKS”

“A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.”

“I like to think that when I fall,
A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea,
This shelf of books along the wall,
Beside my bed, will mourn for me.”

“I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.”

“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't…. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”

“Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together
in their sleep,

Close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.

Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes.”

“On way. He OK? Aeron
Coming. Something wrong? Lucian
Take me out of your address book. William”

“Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.”

“The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.”

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

“A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.”

“The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.”

“The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition: content, ideological schema, the blurring of contradictions—these are repeated, but the superficial forms are varied: always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.”

“Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming.”

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”

“My grandfather always says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. “To travel without moving an inch.”

“My love of books was all that saved me.”

“Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.”

“… a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”

“A good title is the title of a successful book.”

“I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.”

“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?”

“Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.”

“It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.”

“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”

“I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.”

“You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!”

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space…”

“Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.”

“Summer came.
For the books thief, everything was going nicely.
For me, the sky was the color of Jews.”

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

“Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.”

“I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.”

“When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.”

“I should infinitely prefer a book…”