Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Consider a small child sitting on his mother's lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a width that effectively places the child at the center of a closed circle - that of mother's body, arms, and the picture book... That ci...

Life

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

Books v. Cigarettes

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

The Love of Books: The Philobiblion of Richard de Bury

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

A Long Way Down

Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.

Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Quartet

The phone book shouldn’t be arranged alphabetically, but by height. Guess how tall my love for you is. That’s right—taller than Goliath!

This Book is Not FOR SALE

All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The internet is a knowledge omelet. Sometimes I just want the purity of scrambled eggs that only a book can provide.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them.

This Book Has No Title

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

The Weeping Books Of Blinney Lane

A lot of the books that have been written about Silicon Valley are really good. Michael Malone's books are incredible. I think his 'Infinite Loop' is the best book that's been written about Apple.

Sarah Lacy

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

Only bad books have good endings.if a book is any good, its ending is always bad_because byou don't want the book to end.

Pseudonymous Bosch

There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves.

Roy Blount, Jr.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...

Ray Bradbury

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

Rachel Gibson

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

Kate DiCamillo

A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself.

Marcel Proust

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Carlos Fuentes