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Booking Quotes (page 89)

. . . according to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets' -- owing to general lack of time, the oversupply of books, and the perfection of advertising. Stanislaw Lem
I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself. Give me that glass and therein will I read. No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds? O flattering glass, Like to my followers in prosperity Thou dost beguile me! William Shakespeare
It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return. Pearl S. Buck
Benjamin Franklin quote: "He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books."
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books. Benjamin Franklin
She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company. Cornelia Funke
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they’re full of bicycle trails. And this is happening to the world, and I think it is very very dangerous for our future generations, those of us who believe that the world is not only necessary to us in its pristine state, but it is in itself an act of some kind of spiritual thing. I said once, and I think this is true, the world... Mary Oliver
Fran Lebowitz quote: "When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she..."
When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody. Fran Lebowitz
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again. And even of the books we decide to read, there are almost always large portions which do not concern us, and which we are sure to forget the day after we have read them. The art is to skip all that does not concern us, while missing nothing that we really need. No external guidance can teach us this; for nobody but... Philip Gilbert Hamerton
And that very same evening - that very same evening - Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall. Agatha Christie
All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being that the words got in the way. Terry Prachett
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "You talk like a book."
You talk like a book. Vladimir Nabokov
Jodi Picoult quote: "When she wanted to escape her life, she read books"
When she wanted to escape her life, she read books Jodi Picoult
William Goldman quote: "Is this a kissing book?"
Is this a kissing book? William Goldman
Neil Gaiman quote: "The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't...."
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. Neil Gaiman
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, "Tarzan and the Lost Empire", there are 31 books on my list. Edgar Rice Burroughs

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