Quotes about boo
book library together
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books. Alberto Manguel
book numbers space
Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.
book voice space
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.
book night space
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
book numbers discovery
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by numbers or by the language in which the text is written, every library translates the chaos of discovery and creation into a structured system of hierarchies or a rampage of free associations.
book reader defined
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
book reading world
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
book perfect secret
In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.
book kitchen library
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
book reading letters
The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.
book wanted
I wanted to live among books.
book space darkness
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.
book reading sleep
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that when I finally decide to turn off the library light, I carry into my sleep the voices and the movements of the book I've just closed.
book thinking library
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
book creating culture
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.
book reader
A book brings its own history to the reader.
book reading writing
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.
book association reader
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
book unpacking activity
Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.
book space long
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books.
book mean hands
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.
book humorous creating
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.
book trying path
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
book reading thought-provoking
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
book dark space
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.
book darkness return
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
book crafts way
To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.
book reading rebirth
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
book simple mind
I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes. Albert Einstein
book two feet
Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
book teaching people
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
book men two
Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.
book reading writing
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.