The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forge...
Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation.
This is a place where books are treasured – books that hold the sweetly magical smell of history; books that crackle when you open them and sigh when you close them; books that weigh heavy in your hands, not just your heart.
I collect things that collect dust. Like dust jackets. Despite no fingerprints in the dust on these books, most of the dust jackets say things like, “This book is impossible to put down!” Well, apparently it’s also impossible to pick up.
One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.
I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.
They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make not...
With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedo...
And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music,...
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the ...
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.
The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!!
In my book an erection constitutes personal growth.
Book: Ten Steps to Asexuality and Financial Freedom, by Lonely Path
Before bed I do a bit of light reading. I’m reading a 50-pound book on midgets.
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book.
