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Booked Quotes (page 189)

Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a bookkeeper forever, and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and underline my own ridiculousness by their very beauty. In the future I'll be living quietly in a little house somewhere, enjoying a peaceful existence not writing the book I'm not writing now and, so as to continue not doing so, I will use different excuses to the ones I use now to avoid actually confronting myself. Fernando Pessoa
She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything. Michael Cunningham
Tom Robbins quote: "A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time."
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. Tom Robbins
I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me. Pat Conroy
....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment! Composition seems to me impossible with a head full of joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb. Jane Austen
All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire. John Howe
Herman Melville quote: "I would be as free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's..."
I would be as free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books. Herman Melville
William Collins quote: "Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent..."
Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it. William Collins
...you should approach each book -- you should approach life -- with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point. Sherman Alexie
Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate -- now advanced to this glory... Yes; all that reading, I say, has borne this odd fruit. And I am pleased. Virginia Woolf
Robert Frost quote: "A good book has no ending"
A good book has no ending Robert Frost
Anne Rice quote: "There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see."
There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see. Anne Rice
W. H. Auden quote: "Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation."
Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation. W. H. Auden
Oscar Wilde quote: "You and I will always be friends."Yet you poisoned me with a..."
You and I will always be friends."Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. Oscar Wilde
The imagination circuit is taught to respond to the most minimal of cues. A book is an arrangement of 26 phonetic symbols, 10 numbers, and about 8 punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo. Kurt Vonnegut

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