Rachel Kushner Quotes
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Quotes to Explore
-
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
-
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
Patrick deWitt
-
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
-
Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
Patrick Carman
-
I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand
-
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx
-
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
Barbara Park
-
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling
-
I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
Warren Spector
-
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
-
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy
-
You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
Yami Gautam
-
I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
Rabih Alameddine
-
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
T. E. Lawrence
-
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
Samantha Shannon
-
May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel
-
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Gary Wolf
-
I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
Rainbow Rowell
-
I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
Ian Schrager
-
M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.
Victor Hugo
-
I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
Katarina Witt
-
This can sound as something naive. But if we are together in this union, it's because we choose to be one in many things. That's what makes the European Union experience so challenging and also a model. Why did we do this choice? Because we see that we share a common interest and common values.
Federica Mogherini
-
What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
Dan Rather
-
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner