Quotes About Book

What I'm trying to say is that a certain sentence of the book—a written sentence, a very powerful sentence—killed Flora.' Louise was silent. After a few moments she spoke. 'I wish I could write a sentence like that.

But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

It was almost a relief to arrive in the middle of other people's crises and leave the crisis of America behind. At home he had stopped listening to the news and avoided social media to shut out the daily nonsense as much as he could. He had his book to write, and this private crisis to deal with, the crisis of Sister, and that was all he could handle right now. The apocalypse of the West would just have to wait in line.

when we read a book we like, or even love, we find ourselves in agreement with its portrait of human life. Yes, we say, this is how we are, this is what we do to one another, this is true. That, perhaps, is where literature can help most. We can make people agree, in this time of radical disagreement, on the truths of the great constant, which is human nature.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds.

Benim bir kitab?m var, umar?m bize mutluluk getirir.

But what shall we read? Oh, said Rosa, I have a book, - a book which I hope will bring us good fortune. Tomorrow, then. Yes, tomorrow. On the following evening Rosa returned with Cornelius de Witt's Bible.

In my family, a book can be a life raft.

she opened a book and was therefore saved, discovering that a novel was as great an escape as any spell.

was about ten years old. It was called The Geek.

I saw two Northmen. One was reading a book.' 'Really? A book?' Friendly shrugged. 'There are readers everywhere.

un probable futuro ya está conectado a tu «yo» actual, en una dimensión más allá del tiempo y el espacio. Si sigues leyendo, al terminar el libro esta idea ¡te parecerá de lo más normal!

The first few days, the worst thing he seen Harold do was take a dump and use the pages from one of the camp library books for toilet paper." Renée winced. "It turned out to be The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Our only copy. If I had known what he was going to do with it, I would've given him a copy of Atlas Shrugged.

Do you know why the arithmetic book was so sad? A: It had so many problems inside!

Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.

Robes as black as night, and souls twice as dark. Shadows and Ash the Crucifix Dagger book one.

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

started to think again about a book I had read ten years before: The Shallows by Nicholas Carr—a landmark work that really alerted people to a crucial aspect of the growing attention crisis.

Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson's research into these questions—distilled in their book The Spirit Level

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.