Quotes about book
book castles delight
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. Louisa May Alcott
book reading learning
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
book good-friend select
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
book clouds air
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
book soul-and-body good-company
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
book heart joy
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.
book writing thinking
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.
book missing grace
Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?! John Green
book character thinking
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.
book names museums
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.
book library unbearable
This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.
book algorithms good-book
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
book thinking way
When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.
book ladders companion
Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
book reader
Books belong to their readers.
book helping feels
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
book learning oil
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? John Gay
book flames joy
Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.
book reading order
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order? John Foster
book men funeral
I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden passages that are in it for his own benefit, that they may return with him when the owner shall call for the book again: but in case this excellent book shall be thrown into a corner and no use made of it, it justly provokes the owner to take it away in displeasure. --Funeral of John Upton, Esq John Flavel
book hatred desire
My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world. John Fowles
book men giving
My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion John Flanagan
book writing library
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. John F. Kennedy
book voice want
I feel like a lot of times when you get signed to an agent they just send you everywhere, so I still audition for a lot for voiceover stuff. I actually don't book a lot of it, and I love doing it so I get disappointed because I want to do more voice stuff. Jonathan Lipnicki
book writing years
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing. Jonathan Kellerman
book eyebrows stuff
How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff. Jonathan Maberry
book years six
I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older. Jonathan Kozol
book school boston
I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'
book writing years
I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details. Jonathan Lethem
book drinking wine
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.
book four pages
With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.
book people facts
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
book shapes holograms
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.