7,778 Quotes About Book

I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.

I'll make a book on learning how to be a complete moron someday, and I'm sure no one will buy it, because everyone will have mastered that already by the time I gather enough moronism to process it into digestible upgrade instructions for your average village cyborg-idiot.

But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.

After three years of English at Cambridge, being force-fed literary theory, I was almost convinced that literature was all coded messages about Marxism and the death of the self. I crawled out of the post-structuralist desert thirsty for heroines I could cry and laugh with. I was jaded. I craved trash.

The uninitiated might say that I am lost in my books, but I know I am more found than lost.

He returned my smile with a half grin. "So what do you blog about? Knitting? Puzzles? Being lonely?

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise.

Se lee para ser mejor, para ser otro, para hacernos inacabables. Se lee para vencer o procurar el desasosiego. Para asombrarnos o sabernos iguales. Para más nunca ser el mismo.

Writing a book is like raising a child. They are conceived in private, and with hard labor, delivered in due time and given a name. Our own DNA is written all over them, and we pray their life will be a blessing to others.