But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.
- Mario Batali
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me.
I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then
- Alison Bechdel
if you like books with happy endings then put this book down immidiately
- Lemony Snicket
If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.
- Lemony Snicket
I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.
- Haruki Murakami
He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.
- Dorothy B Hughes
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?
- Ray Bradbury
Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
- Ray Bradbury
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
- Bruce Boxleitner
What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.
- John Bright
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
- Richard Burton
Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a continuous critical exasperation, would use the word of him without stopping to think. They feel that Dickens is a great writer even if he is not a good writer.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created.
You know, I think I show a lot of promise, I say.
Get dressed, you worthless thing.
- Suzanne Collins
The man he was now, the personality his friends knew, had begun to grow strong during adolescence, during the years when he was always consciously or unconsciously conjugating the verb "to love"-- in society and solitude, with people, with books, with the sky and open country, in the lonesomeness of crowded city streets.
- Willa Cather
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
- Jack L Chalker
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.
- Stephen King
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
- Michael Connelly
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.
- Virginia Woolf
I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with
phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all
these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask,
Are there stories?
- Virginia Woolf
Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a living by parasitizing him, wrote the splendid line, 'was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
- Richard Dawkins
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
- Jeffery Deaver
and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
- Charles Dickens
It was an irresistible novelty having a conversation about books with a stranger.
- Jaclyn Dolamore
Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved
- Milan Kundera
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
- Umberto Eco
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
- Cornelia Funke
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
- William Gaddis
Teagan: How long has it been since you read a book that didn't havevampires in it?
Abby: They write books with no vampires? Wait...the penguins made us read that Shakesrear guy, right?
Teagan: Shakespeare.
- Kersten Hamilton
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
- Anthony Minghella
I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.
- Jerry B Jenkins
I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.
- Susan Lendroth
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
- Elizabeth Moon
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
- Elizabeth Moon
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
- William Osler
Ernie greets us again and slaps some glasses on the bar. A young-looking guy in the back of the room mutters something about "damn Cullenist" loud enough for me to hear. (Well, me and everybody else, since we've all got superhearing.) What's he talking about? What did I--oh wait, yeah, those vampire books with the sparkly vampires. Great.
- Kimberly Pauley
I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I'm going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It's a kind of discipline.
- Amy Ray
A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.
- Manuel Rivas
I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.
- Henry Rollins
You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.
- Wallace Stegner
I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
- Mick Taylor
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
- Justin Winsor
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
- Gabriel Zaid
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.
- Mario Batali
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me.
I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then
- Alison Bechdel
if you like books with happy endings then put this book down immidiately
- Lemony Snicket
If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.
- Lemony Snicket
I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.
- Haruki Murakami
He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.
- Dorothy B Hughes
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?
- Ray Bradbury
Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
- Ray Bradbury
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
- Bruce Boxleitner
What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.
- John Bright
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
- Richard Burton
Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a continuous critical exasperation, would use the word of him without stopping to think. They feel that Dickens is a great writer even if he is not a good writer.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created.
You know, I think I show a lot of promise, I say.
Get dressed, you worthless thing.
- Suzanne Collins
The man he was now, the personality his friends knew, had begun to grow strong during adolescence, during the years when he was always consciously or unconsciously conjugating the verb "to love"-- in society and solitude, with people, with books, with the sky and open country, in the lonesomeness of crowded city streets.
- Willa Cather
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
- Jack L Chalker
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.
- Stephen King
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
- Michael Connelly
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.
- Virginia Woolf
I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with
phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all
these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask,
Are there stories?
- Virginia Woolf
Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a living by parasitizing him, wrote the splendid line, 'was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
- Richard Dawkins
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
- Jeffery Deaver
and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
- Charles Dickens
It was an irresistible novelty having a conversation about books with a stranger.
- Jaclyn Dolamore
Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved
- Milan Kundera
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
- Umberto Eco
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
- Cornelia Funke
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
- William Gaddis
Teagan: How long has it been since you read a book that didn't havevampires in it?
Abby: They write books with no vampires? Wait...the penguins made us read that Shakesrear guy, right?
Teagan: Shakespeare.
- Kersten Hamilton
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
- Anthony Minghella
I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.
- Jerry B Jenkins
I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.
- Susan Lendroth
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
- Elizabeth Moon
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
- Elizabeth Moon
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
- William Osler
Ernie greets us again and slaps some glasses on the bar. A young-looking guy in the back of the room mutters something about "damn Cullenist" loud enough for me to hear. (Well, me and everybody else, since we've all got superhearing.) What's he talking about? What did I--oh wait, yeah, those vampire books with the sparkly vampires. Great.
- Kimberly Pauley
I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I'm going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It's a kind of discipline.
- Amy Ray
A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.
- Manuel Rivas
I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.
- Henry Rollins
You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.
- Wallace Stegner
I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
- Mick Taylor
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
- Justin Winsor
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
- Gabriel Zaid
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