Quotes about book
book unpacking activity
Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. Alberto Manguel
book space long
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books.
book mean hands
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.
book humorous creating
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.
book trying path
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
book reading thought-provoking
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
book dark space
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.
book darkness return
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
book crafts way
To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.
book reading rebirth
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
book simple mind
I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes. Albert Einstein
book two feet
Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
book teaching people
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
book men two
Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.
book reading writing
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.
book looks look-up
Never memorise what you can look up in a book.
book ideas jail
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail Alfred Whitney Griswold
book parent atmosphere
We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up. Alfred Stieglitz
book eye soul
This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise. Alfred Noyes
book men ink
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man. Alfred Nobel
book thinking opposites
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Alfred North Whitehead
book pages select
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
book alive classic
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. Alfred Kazin
book simple topics
Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so. Alfred Marshall
book squares looks
But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot. Alfred Lord Tennyson
book reality people
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience. Alex Berenson
book taken writing
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite. Alex Flinn
book age would-be
It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
book thinking able
Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.
book divorce past
The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking — partly for the experience — it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life. Alex Garland
book done way
If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.
book plugs great-gifts
Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in. Alec Baldwin
book men two
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini. Aldous Huxley