"Book" Quotes . Top 35 Short Quotes About "Book"

"Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children."

--- A. E. van Vogt

#Book #Males #Ends

"The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity."

--- A. Edward Newton

#Buying #Book #Soul

"Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance."

--- A. Edward Newton

#Buying #Book #Mere

"As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books."

--- A. Edward Newton

#Book

"Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.'? Whoever it was, I agree with him."

--- A. Edward Newton

#Buying #Book #Soul

"My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy."

--- A. Edward Newton

#Buying #Book #Purses

"The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter."

--- A. Edward Newton

#Book #Selection #Matter

"In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment."

--- A. H. Almaas

#Book #Inner Journey #Presentation

"It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?"

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Book #Brutality #Barbaric

"I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Book #Newspapers #Typos

"Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Book #Recipes #Written

"My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Book #Feels #Lists

"I try to be an open book now as much as possible."

--- A. J. McLean

#Book #Open Book #Trying

"I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home."

--- A. J. McLean

#Book #Magazines And Books #Home

"History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Book #People #Approach

"There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Book #Crash #Wells

"This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Book #Wretchedness #Politician

"I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Book #Publishers #Interest

"If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Book #Long Book #Long

"My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Book #Writing #Toby

"I don't write books inadvertently."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Book #Writing

"The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone 'Stuck in Love', with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep - not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds."

--- A. O. Scott

#Book #Green #Productions

"What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books."

--- A. S. Byatt

#People #Book #Change

"I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not."

--- A. S. Byatt

#People #Book

"There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board."

--- A. S. Byatt

#People #Book #Syllabus

"A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children."

--- A. S. Byatt

#People #Book #Including

"I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers."

--- A. S. Byatt

#People #Book #Dangerous

"When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Book #Television #Children

"Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Book #Shapes #World

"Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Book #Prophet #Shapes

"I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Thinking #Book #Grew Up

"Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery."

--- A. S. W. Rosenbach

#Scarcity #Young Children #Reason

"I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book."

--- A. S. W. Rosenbach

#Stealing #Book #Journey

"After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all."

--- A. S. W. Rosenbach

#Book #Sports #Collecting

"I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked."

--- A. Scott Berg

#Book #Firsts #Wilson

35 "Book" Quotes