Quotes about book
book knowledge insignificant-things
I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal! Marcel Proust
book reading kind
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
book writing humility
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
book passion writing
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
book might recognition
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.
book reading unhappy-childhood
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
book men black
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor. Joseph Addison
book legacy genius
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
book writing men
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.
book evil
A great large book is a great evil.
book style rivals
Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.
book generations genius
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
book fall perfection
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
book writing hands
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents. Jose Rizal
book destiny past
To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
book differences people
I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it is a difference in people's lives. Joseph A. Schumpeter
book writing who-i-am
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits. Jose Saramago
book reading home
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
book writing ifs
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
book calm console
Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us. Jose Marti
book giving library
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book. Jose Ortega y Gasset
book library librarian
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.
book good-book
Who learns most from a good book is the author. Jose Bergamin
book idols choices
Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book. Jordin Sparks
book boys letters
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight. Jorge Luis Borges
book might kind
The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
book past thinking
I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.
book night tears
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.
book order serenity
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.
book library paradise
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
book
I have always come to life after coming to books.
book ambition exercise
The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the otherslike a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.
book cities pieces
I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.