Book Quotes
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Overall, Id say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.
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Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.
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I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
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There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
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You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
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It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie.
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School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.
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When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.
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An unread book does nobody any good.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Preface to second edition. I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.
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I wrote my book to free myself from it, not to be its prisoner.
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Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.
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We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no answers to the question of the origin of the immune system.
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Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.
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I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.
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I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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A book is a loaded gun.
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I stared at the reproduced mural in the book--but I was more interested in his finger as he tapped the book with approval. That finger had pulled a trigger in a war. That finger had touched my mother in tender ways I did not fully comprehend. I wanted to talk, to say something, to ask questions. But I couldn't. All the words were stuck in my throat. So I just nodded.
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Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.
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A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when it was completely done and in printed galleys, I was surprised by how uninterested in the passage of time and history the book seemed to be. Even though you can feel it all there, that's just not what it's focused on.
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But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.
