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Booked Quotes (page 158)

Somewhere the saving and putting away had to begin again and someone had to do the saving and keeping, one way or another, in books, in records, in people's heads, any way at all so long as it was safe, free from moths, silverfish, rust and dry rot and men with matches. Ray Bradbury
Here I am, proud as Greek god, and yet standing debtor to this blockhead for a bone to stand on! Cursed be that mortal inter-indebtedness which will not do away with ledgers. I would be free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books. I am so rich, I could have given bid for bid with the wealthiest Praetorians at the auction of the Roman empire (which was the world's); and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue I brag with. By heavens! I'll get a crucible, and into it, and dissolve myself... Herman Melville
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook. Aldous Huxley
All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers. Cornelia Funke
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves. Herman Hesse
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything. Virginia Woolf
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading. Michael Jackson
Aldous Huxley quote: "Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume..."
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. Aldous Huxley
She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself, in the room of her house, and when she glanced over at this new book on her nightstand, stacked atop the one she finished last night, she reached for it automatically, as if reading were the singular and obvious first task of the day, the only viable way to negotiate the transit from sleep to obligation. Michael Cunningham
He is still, at times, astonished by her. She may be the most intelligent woman in England, he thinks. Her books may be read for centuries. Michael Cunningham
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book. Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami quote: "I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading..."
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. Haruki Murakami
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back..."
And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charlaine Harris quote: "Dated” in Selah’s book, being a euphemism for “had..."
Dated” in Selah’s book, being a euphemism for “had enthusiastic and frequent sex with”. Charlaine Harris
On principle' a man can do anything, take part in anything and himself remain inhuman and indeterminate. 'On principle' a man may interest himself in the founding of a brothel, and the same man can 'on principle' assist in the publication of a new Hymn book because it is supposed to be the great need of the times. But it would be as unjustifiable to conclude from the first fact that he was debauched as it would, perhaps, be to conclude from the second that he read or sang hymns. Soren Kierkegaard

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