Book Quotes - Page 8

Even though everything today is available at a click of a mouse still, the smell of a book and its feel makes the experience of reading very special and personal. It is more tangible and I urge all youngsters to read a lot as it will also broaden their horizons.

Shallu Jindal

I am trying to sell beauty.Worst that you can do to me is not buy it!

Koral Dasgupta

A book is an ocean,Its upon you,Whether you find pearls,Or only take a drop….!!!!

Aqeel Rafique

Books are like plants. They're decorations that are alive.

Katy Lee

I'm usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven't been to before, so it's a way to not look weird. If I find something I've read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.

Adi Alsaid

When asked for the details of an ideal date, I answered, "I want him to take me to a book store, so he can see just how happy I can be.

Camille Cabujat

When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read.

Mary Street

Keynes was a voracious reader. He had what he called ‘one of the best of all gifts – the eye which can pick up the print effortlessly’. If one was to be a good reader, that is to read as easily as one breathed, practice was needed. ‘I read the newspapers because they’re mostly trash,’ he said in 1936. ‘Newspapers are good practice in learning how to skip; and, if he is not to lose his time, every serious reader must have this art.’ Travelling by train from New York to Washington in 1943, Keynes awed his fellow passengers by the speed with which he devoured newspapers and periodicals as well as discussing modern art, the desolate American landscape and the absence of birds compared with English countryside.54‘As a general rule,’ Keynes propounded as an undergraduate, ‘I hate books that end badly; I always want the characters to be happy.’ Thirty years later he deplored contemporary novels as ‘heavy-going’, with ‘such misunderstood, mishandled, misshapen, such muddled handling of human hopes’. Self-indulgent regrets, defeatism, railing against fate, gloom about future prospects: all these were anathema to Keynes in literature as in life. The modern classic he recommended in 1936 was Forster’s A Room with a View, which had been published nearly thirty years earlier. He was, however, grateful for the ‘perfect relaxation’ provided by those ‘unpretending, workmanlike, ingenious, abundant, delightful heaven-sent entertainers’, Agatha Christie, Edgar Wallace and P. G. Wodehouse. ‘There is a great purity in these writers, a remarkable absence of falsity and fudge, so that they live and move, serene, Olympian and aloof, free from any pretended contact with the realities of life.’ Keynes preferred memoirs as ‘more agreeable and amusing, so much more touching, bringing so much more of the pattern of life, than … the daydreams of a nervous wreck, which is the average modern novel’. He loved good theatre, settling into his seat at the first night of a production of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country with a blissful sigh and the words, ‘Ah! this is the loveliest play in all the world.’55Rather as Keynes was a grabby eater, with table-manners that offended Norton and other Bloomsbury groupers, so he could be impatient to reach the end of books. In the inter-war period publishers used to have a ‘gathering’ of eight or sixteen pages at the back of their volumes to publicize their other books-in-print. He excised these advertisements while reading a book, so that as he turned a page he could always see how far he must go before finishing.A reader, said Keynes, should approach books ‘with all his senses; he should know their touch and their smell. He should learn how to take them in his hands, rustle their pages and reach in a few seconds a first intuitive impression of what they contain. He should … have touched many thousands, at least ten times as many as he reads. He should cast an eye over books as a shepherd over sheep, and judge them with the rapid, searching glance with which a cattle-dealer eyes cattle.’ Keynes in 1927 reproached his fellow countrymen for their low expenditure in bookshops. ‘How many people spend even £10 a year on books? How many spend 1 per cent of their incomes? To buy a book ought to be felt not as an extravagance, but as a good deed, a social duty which blesses him who does it.’ He wished to muster ‘a mighty army … of Bookworms, pledged to spend £10 a year on books, and, in the higher ranks of the Brotherhood, to buy a book a week’. Keynes was a votary of good bookshops, whether their stock was new or second-hand. ‘A bookshop is not like a railway booking-office which one approaches knowing what one wants. One should enter it vaguely, almost in a dream, and allow what is there freely to attract and influence the eye. To walk the rounds of the bookshops, dipping in as curiosity dictates, should be an afternoon’s entertainment.

Richard Davenport-Hines

Some of us think we already know the answer. They are the people who close a book and never think about it again. To them, the story ends at the words 'The End' and that's that.

Sarah Dalton

If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell.

James Purdy

I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.

Mary Sage Nguyen

On Tuesday, December 7th, a lot of good things happened: they took the trach out, took the cast off my leg and my PT, Maria, had me standing.

Amy Rankin

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every book has its ancestors

Bangambiki Habyarimana

There's nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes.

Haruki Murakami

As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.

Laura Whitcomb

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

Bangambiki Habyarimana

No one has a favorite book - they just fall in love with the spell the author put into the pages.

McKenna Paulson

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages

Laura Whitcomb

Who needs sleep when you have a good book?

Elizabeth Ann Patterson

I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.

Gabrielle Zevin

With a book, he was regardless of time.

Jane Austen

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Jacky

Ellis smiled at her concern and kissed her cheek once more. “I promise. I’ll come home if I need help.” He stepped back and gave them a bow, showing his respect.With their permission, he left the counsel room and headed straight to his room. He packed supplies for the journey. His mother had warned him that no magic worked inside of The Forbidden Woods or even in the outskirts of it. He would have to walk there on foot and hope that no one loyal to Walter caught up with him on his way.

Elaine White

He was angry with himself for having kissed her and enjoyed it, only to be disappointed by her in the end.He knew that love was never simple, but it was even less so for a vampire.He shook his head in disbelief as he walked away. He had really thought that she was the one for him and had genuinely believed that hewas going to spend the rest of his life with her, but now, he knew better.

Elaine White

Kissing her to keep her quiet was the best idea that he’d had all week. One hand drifted into her loose hair as she responded to each kiss, while the other caught her waist and held her close to him.

Elaine White

A spider is hardly an excuse to abuse a book.

Rebecca Chastain

My shitty book, no one is going to read, about a total asshole and a completely fucked up world.

Scott Talbot Evans

Your book goes places you may never go and helps people you may never meet

Bernard Kelvin Clive

I didn’t intend the book as anything therapeutic and I don't think that’s a novel’s goal or responsibility.

Hanya Yanagihara

We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form - just as we have since the day we were born.

The Truth

Mr Pickwick awoke the next morning, there was not a symptom of rheumatism about him; which proves, as Mr Bob Sawyer very justly observed, that there is nothing like hot punch in such cases; and that if ever hot punch did fail to act as a preventive, it was merely because the patient fell in to the vulgar error of not taking enough of it.

Charles Dickens

Did you know, ji,’ Zulu offered, ‘that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst.

Salman Rushdie

She was certain this trip would be a landslide of regret, anger and resentment, crumbling around a day of sadness.

Shannyn Leah

Her hands moved up his arms and tried to ignore the tingling zapping her skin like the metal edges of the Operation game.

Shannyn Leah

The treasures of life are hidden in a book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.

Gerald Kersh

After three years of English at Cambridge, being force-fed literary theory, I was almost convinced that literature was all coded messages about Marxism and the death of the self. I crawled out of the post-structuralist desert thirsty for heroines I could cry and laugh with. I was jaded. I craved trash.

Samantha Ellis

He returned my smile with a half grin. "So what do you blog about? Knitting? Puzzles? Being lonely?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.

Daniel Keyes

The uninitiated might say that I am lost in my books, but I know I am more found than lost.

Donalyn Miller

Writing a book is like raising a child. They are conceived in private, and with hard labor, delivered in due time and given a name. Our own DNA is written all over them, and we pray their life will be a blessing to others.

Danny L Deaubé

Someone mentioned therapy to me once. I read a book instead. ~ Drew Stirling

Jayden Hunter

Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

Holly Sparks

Life is a book. When one chapter ends, the next one begins...

Scuro Chiaro - Photographer

Everything I try to hide ends up screaming from a mountaintop.

Jenim Dibie

To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.

Michel Houellebecq

The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye…Clothing, an extension of the skin…Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.

Marshall McLuhan

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

Bangambiki Habyarimana

There is just one way to get success for me - Live in other's heart.

Anuj Tiwari

Reading a book makes a conversation with the author (Robin Sharma on The Cure For Fear - Robin Sharma)

Deyth Banger

It's just incrediable if I play a game, I think don't I?If I watch a film, I just finish a book...

Deyth Banger

...Okay... probably now you have read all my books up to now..., you have check out everything what I have and you are asking what more???Check out horror and try to understand it!

Deyth Banger

Yeah, Horemheb, you are under my command once more. You might be the pharaoh, but I am Tutankhamun! - Tut Reborn by Cyci Cade

Cyci Cade

A scary movie or a book isn't still made. But I'm waiting for that!

Deyth Banger

If I know the end of a book or a film I want to know why it happen...

Deyth Banger

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