Book Philosophy Essentials

Table of Contents

• Books as Relationships and Connections
• Books as Living Entities
• Books as Gardens and Worlds
• Books as Containers of Ideas
• Books as Extensions and Tools
• Books as Transformative and Influential
• Other

Books as Relationships and Connections

A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full-stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.

Books as Living Entities

If the words are just words, then the book is just pages. But if the words capture great ideas and intimately frame them so that our lives are transformed by the weight of them, then you have a book that can never be defined by its pages.

The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself.

I was breathing life into the book through my hand, and the book was breathing back out through me into the world. And what was a book but leather? And what was leather but animal skin? And what was paper but a tree, and vellum but lamb? And what was I but an idea?

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

A book is a carrier, and the ideas contained within its covers are an infection waiting to be spread. They breed in men. They adapt according to the host. Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

Books as Gardens and Worlds

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket.

A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way..

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

A book is a garden carried in the pocket

A book is like a trapdoor that leads to a secret attic: You can open it and go inside. And your world is different.

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way...

A book is made of paper but a story is a tree.

Books as Containers of Ideas

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

A book is a souvenir of an idea.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

Every book is a box of ideas.

You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it’s good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.

A book is a carrier, and the ideas contained within its covers are an infection waiting to be spread. They breed in men. They adapt according to the host. Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds.

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Books as Extensions and Tools

The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye…Clothing, an extension of the skin…Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.

Books as Transformative and Influential

what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all

A book is a writer's will:ideas are the inheritance.

Yesterday, I had an idea...today I have a book.

books as objects are not what books are, it's not what's important about them

You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.

How intimately a book is related to the tree and it’s rings, she thinks. The layers of time, preserved, for all to examine.

A book is a carrier, and the ideas contained within its covers are an infection waiting to be spread. They breed in men. They adapt according to the host. Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds.

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

Other

Every book has its ancestors

Ivy, It's just a book""No such thing as just a book

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.

[...] to me a new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of existence beyond himself [...]

A book asks more than style.

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates.

a book is not a penis

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

Book is not just a word; it, Brings You Some Knowledge;

A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of existence beyond himself.

Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.

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A book? All this for a book?

Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don't you buy a new one then? Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione. Hermione: You bought all those dungbombs on Saturday. You could have bought a new book instead. Ron: Dungbombs rule.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

A book is a loaded gun.

What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.

A book is either autobiography or a novel.

I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book.

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn’t take on any other terms.

What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air – a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.

Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don’t you buy a new one then? Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione. Hermione: You bought all those dungbombs on Saturday. You could have bought a new book instead. Ron: Dungbombs rule.

One’s head is finite. You pour more and more things into it – surnames, chronologies, affiliations – and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

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