Book Quotes
Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril.
Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.
There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--
Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the bedroom, les livres du chevet, everywhere.
Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.
Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.
I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.
I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.
There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.
I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.
My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.
Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.
The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.
Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.