Quotes about book
book live-life writing
Youve got to live life to write a book about it. Andy Williams
book tape
I love to listen to books on tape. Angel Haze
book reading way
I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen. Ang Lee
book kids games
Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
book reading talking
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. Anatole Broyard
book reading night
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.
book
We don't simply read books. We become them.
book parent teeth
A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.
book missing moments
The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
book sunset views
A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.
book three should
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
book benefits chess
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently. Anatoly Karpov
book reading library
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them Anatole France
book reading easy
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
book devil sides
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
book light interesting
Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met. Anais Nin
book writing ignored
I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.
book giving extravagance
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.
book buying obsession
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
book waiting firsts
I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.
book writing finals
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
book cooking ingredients
My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes. Alton Brown
book use analogies
To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause. Anne Fadiman
book believe hands
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
book literature copyright
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
book grateful smell
I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.
book symphony pluck
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.
book water settling
I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
book worry thank-god
Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.
book able
I have never been able to resist a book about books.
book stories shelves
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.
book views caviar
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
book sleep writing
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.