Top 1200 Book Lover Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted to teach Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I hadn't read it in twenty-five years. I was surprised to find how much I drew from that book. Stole from that book, learned from that book about writing. I had forgotten and there it was. Morrison has called that text faulted. I cannot see how.

Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book is a magisterial overview of health, income, and wealth from the industrial revolution to the present, taking in countries poor and rich. Not just jargon-free but equation-free, the book is written with a beautifully lucid style. . . . [P]owerfully argued and convincing.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

How can you ever hope to know the Beloved Without becoming in every cell the Lover?

The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

Book culture has also become something that's kind of incredible to younger people now, because of the Internet. If you go to any of the book fairs - PS1 or the MOCA Book Fair - none of the people are over the age of 40 years old there, and they trade and buy books, because they're almost antiquities at this point. They're not really important, in a way, because the Internet is how information is taken in.

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

When I think of my best days as husband, I find I was doing what Regi said in this book. What Radical Husbands Do is a practical book I can safely give any man who is struggling in his marriage.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book.

I re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the USA is her primary focus. Her book demonstrates that white is not universal, that white is not neutral, that it has a history, which she eloquently delineates. It's not often you finish a book understanding how the world operates better than before you read it.

I have pictures of me feeding deer and possums with baby bottles. I am such an animal lover.

I have never been a pet lover or really craved the idea of having dogs.

We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

'Catcher In The Rye' was my favorite book, honestly. I read it when I was thirteen, and the book was a bit of a family heirloom because it was passed down from my grandfather to my father to my older brother and then to me.

Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.

Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one.

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

Think of your husband as a lover from a previous life, and wonder what you did to deserve him.

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

I think of myself as more of a lover rather than a fighter, but sometimes you have to fight for what you love.

If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.

Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.

Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.

It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the book came out, it was surprising to me that the mental health community embraced it.

A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

In my book, The Sins of Scripture, I traced the development of tribal religion, which included ideas like God's killing the Egyptians because they hated the chosen people. Then a God of love finally appears in the Book of Hosea, about the 8th century. A God of justice appears in the Book of Amos in the late 8th century or early 7th century.

It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now means everything to me. I had many doubts and fears about that book, but some of what I feel are the best ideas in it came to me when I was working away for apparently no result. Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

I am a huge animal lover. I prefer to rescue any of the pets that I have had.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

God put thorns around the Love's door to stop anyone who's not a Lover from entering.

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.

I am a dog and a cat lover; doesn't matter which animal it is but dogs are cuter at times.