Booking Quotes (page 104)

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• book
• comforting
• white

Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things were to be bodied forth. As yet he had no inkling of any incidents or characters that might occupy his theme; perhaps he never would. He could see though the book itself, he could feel its closed heft and see it opened, white pages comfortably large and shadowed gray by print; dense, numbered, full of meat. He sensed a narrative voice, speaking calmly... John Crowley

• friends
• book
• friend

Good friends, good books and a sleep conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain

• book
• library
• admired

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. Cecil B. DeMille

• purpose
• book
• reading

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for? John Irving

• book
• library
• prized

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. William Shakespeare

• touching
• manly
• mind

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. Gilbert Highet

• touching
• book
• eyes

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. Haruki Murakami

• book
• favorite
• picked

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose. Neil Gaiman

• good
• book
• thoughts

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones. Georg C. Lichtenberg

• book
• reading
• commitment

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. John Waters

• work
• bible
• children

The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals. Richard Dawkins

• personal
• life
• personality

I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my... Neil Peart

• reading
• saying
• writing

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that? Ray Bradbury

• life
• evening
• may

There is one final point, the point that separates a true multivolume work from a short story, a novel, or a series. The ending of the final volume should leave the reader with the feeling that he has gone through the defining circumstances of Main Character's life. The leading character in a series can wander off into another book and a new adventure better even than this one. Main Character cannot, at the end of your multivolume work. (Or at least, it should seem so.) His life may continue,... Gene Wolfe

• book
• living
• imports

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. Edmund White