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Paper Books Quotes (page 3)

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile? except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison. Isaac Asimov
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink! Nikos Kazantzakis
(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain. Terry Prachett
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart. Mortimer Adler
Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper. Haruki Murakami
From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside. Rita Dove
Terry Prachett quote: "That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid..."
That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid nastily. "How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't count. Terry Prachett
TO MY COLLABORATOR who buys the ink and paper laughs and, in fact, does all the really difficult part of the business this book is gratefully dedicated in memory of a winter’s morning in Switzerland A. A. Milne
John Lennon quote: "I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my..."
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book. John Lennon
The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered scatter of papers and books a writer builds around himself until it acquires the cozy solidity of a nest. Paul Theroux
There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward. Peter Ackroyd
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Eudora Welty
For some of us books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small flat rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world worlds that sing to you comfort and quiet or excite you.” — Anne Lamott Anne Lamott
Christopher Morley quote: "When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of..."
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Christopher Morley
Rube Goldberg quote: "And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also..."
And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers. Rube Goldberg

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