Quotes on Book

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.

In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically correct, but I am unrepentant because metaphors are more than ever needed for a widespread comprehension of the true nature of the Earth and an understanding of the lethal dangers that lie ahead.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

I'll note you in my book of memory.