Quotes of: Picture-book Keyword

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as well as the answer to those who say that books will disappear. For now, ...

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed a...

The Name of the Rose

To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift from book to book, you're lulled into thinking that this lack of focus is right and natural - but it's as wrong as can be. Some s...

Read for Your Life: 11 Ways to Better Yourself Through Books

Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate the book because the MC says the word “delicious” and the reader believes it’s the Devil’s word and only evil people use it, th...

Stacia Kane

See, I know how they do. White folks like to stay in those books. They carry and they keep and they dig in their books, like nothing matters that don’t get written in some book somewhere. Like that’s the only way they can know for sure what happe...

Margaret Wrinkle

Every event in life — the rejections, the relationships, all the embarrassing things you do will lead you to the person you are destined to be with. You may want to change certain things about your past, but everything has been just another chapter...

Mike Zacchio

I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle showed up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the d...

Neil Gaiman

In his book , written in 1951-2 and published in the West in 1953, the Polish poet and essayist Czeslaw Milosz paid Orwell one of the greatest compliments that one writer has ever bestowed upon another. Milosz had seen the Stalinisation of Eastern Eu...

Christopher Hitchens

This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it & the soul of those who read it & lived it & dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes do...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I love so many books and authors that it's hard to name just a few, but I'm always particularly excited when new books by and come out. (And, of course, books by , and , and the rest of the Bordertown crew!) I'm impatiently looking forward to 's next...

Terri Windling

Scholars talk books, butchers talk pigs.

Chinese

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.

Japanese

You can't tell a book by its cover.

Traditional

You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that’s the same as going there.

The Circle

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

Chaos: Making a New Science

Be responsible. Your abilities ensure that you respond to the responsibilities that you encounter daily.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Never let your mind imprison your achievements by imposing disbelief on you.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Believe and acknowledge that God is the source of your big dreams, but not you!

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Do all to change your environment; don’t allow your environment to change you.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Not now” easily grows to become “never”; You either do it now or lose it forever!

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Do kisses fade like Polaroid pictures if you don't pay attention to them?

The First Last Kiss