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Book Quotes

One always has a better book in one’s mind than one can manage to get onto paper Picture Quote #1

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames Picture Quote #1

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian... He’s bound to lose perspective Picture Quote #1

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle Picture Quote #1

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one Picture Quote #1

As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I’ve discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy brain, I feel like the story is a specimen in a sealed glass jar and not a living, breathing creature I want to take by the hand and talk to for hours on end Picture Quote #1

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A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand Picture Quote #1

My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don’t think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified! Picture Quote #1

I’ve had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book Picture Quote #1

I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that’s where I want to be Picture Quote #1

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality Picture Quote #1

When it’s in a book I don’t think it’ll hurt any more... exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them Picture Quote #1

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I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha! Picture Quote #1

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book Picture Quote #1

It’s time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a seat of unremarkable men and women anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabitized things a million forgotten hours Picture Quote #1

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book Picture Quote #1

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody Picture Quote #1

When I’m tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth Picture Quote #1

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Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain Picture Quote #1

... how odd to think of one’s life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct Picture Quote #1

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome Picture Quote #1

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times Picture Quote #1

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs Picture Quote #1

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come Picture Quote #1

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It’s not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks Picture Quote #1

Opening the book, I inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it Picture Quote #1

$I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it Picture Quote #1$

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you’re working. Tell them it’s research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone Picture Quote #1

I think it’s a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot’s in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren’t fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can’t be far off Picture Quote #1

I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends Picture Quote #1

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One always has a better book in one’s mind than one can manage to get onto paper (Book Quotes) You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames (Book Quotes) The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian... He’s bound to lose perspective (Book Quotes) A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle (Book Quotes) My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one (Book Quotes) As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I’ve discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy brain, I feel like the story is a specimen in a sealed glass jar and not a living, breathing creature I want to take by the hand and talk to for hours on end (Book Quotes) A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand (Book Quotes) My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don’t think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified! (Book Quotes) I’ve had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book (Book Quotes) I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that’s where I want to be (Book Quotes) Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality (Book Quotes) When it’s in a book I don’t think it’ll hurt any more... exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them (Book Quotes) I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha! (Book Quotes) Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book (Book Quotes) It’s time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a seat of unremarkable men and women anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabitized things a million forgotten hours (Book Quotes) You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book (Book Quotes) Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody (Book Quotes) When I’m tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth (Book Quotes) Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain (Book Quotes) ... how odd to think of one’s life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct (Book Quotes) Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome (Book Quotes) There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times (Book Quotes) If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs (Book Quotes) O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come (Book Quotes) It’s not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks (Book Quotes) Opening the book, I inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it (Book Quotes) I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it (Book Quotes) Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you’re working. Tell them it’s research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone (Book Quotes) I think it’s a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot’s in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren’t fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can’t be far off (Book Quotes) I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends (Book Quotes)

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