Booked Quotes (page 147)

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• book
• writing
• hell

But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books. Edward Abbey

• bear
• bad
• achievement

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are. Eric Hoffer

• good night
• genius
• morning

Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished; acted people's parts as he ate; mouthed them as he walked; now cried; now laughed; vacillated between this style and that; now preferred the heroic... Virginia Woolf

• book
• mind
• mindfulness

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book. Jane Austen

• bear
• hand
• book

However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what... Arthur Schopenhauer

• good
• book
• work

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad. Stephen King

• being with friends
• fall
• book

[about books]If you cannot read them, any rate...fondle them. Peer into them...let them fall open where they will,...Set them back on the shelf with your own hands...If they cannot be your friends, let them at any rate be your acquaintances. Winston Churchill

• distance
• look
• enough is enough

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. Jim Bishop

• book
• childhood
• world

This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the sovenier of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams. Paulo Coelho

• book
• writing
• reading

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. Robert Byrne

• book
• future
• will

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. Thomas Jefferson

• feeling
• dream
• touching

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd. Allen Ginsberg

• good
• book
• profitable

That is a good book which is opened withexpectation and closed in profit. Amos Bronson Alcott

• book
• him
• running

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all. A. A. Milne

• time
• mind
• mindfulness

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period. Anne Lamott