Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book
Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.
I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction - it was a misprint.
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )
A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
On way. He OK? Aeron Coming. Something wrong? Lucian Take me out of your address book. William
He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.
I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.
Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.
I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.
Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.
Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.
When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.
I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.
A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.
My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.
Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.
Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.
I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.
The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.