Book Quotes - Page 30

• We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mind, Culture, Eccentric

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Bridges, People, Would Be

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think about books? How will books become meaningful in their lives except as yet another form of digitalized content? A book is not just digitalized content.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Meaningful, Kids, Thinking

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reflection, Self, Years

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I do not want to see it on electronic. I do not want to see all of those indices on Kindle. I don't want this physical object to disappear, because when it's there and it's present, it's continually suggesting new relationships in a way that an electronic index couldn't.

  Jeanette Winterson

  New Relationship, Want, Way

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's empowering and offers a way to speak about yourself that you don't have if all you are doing is reading the newspaper and watching TV.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Empowering, Watching Tv

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.

  Garrison Keillor

  Cracks, Nuisance, Strikes

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• I actually kind of like Janet Reno. She seems like a nice enough lady. But when you're basically going through the entire phone book trying to find women lawyers who don't have maids to pick the attorney general of the United States, how well can you do?

  Dave Barry

  Nice, Phones, Trying

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Daughter, Writing, Son

  Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I've written many short stories with realistic settings, and I certainly wouldn't rule out realistic novels in the future!

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Magic, Stories

  TheFandom.net Interview, www.thefandom.net.

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• Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Successful, Thinking

  Source: cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com

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• I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Ideas, Physics, Quantum

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Names, Vision, Would Be

  Source: blogcritics.org

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• It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Wise, Successful

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Thinking, Icons

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Purpose, Fields

  Source: zenhabits.net

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• I always resist seeing my own personal motivation in my work, but I guess it must be there on some level. And I do feel very much that my life follows the kinds of things I talk about in my books. I've always thought of myself as an insanely lucky person, so perhaps the success of my first two books led me to want to examine this phenomenon on some unconscious level.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivation, Two, Lucky

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a revolution in the way that we consume creative property, which I would call art. It has radically changed the relationship between the artist and the audience, how money changes hands, and how much money changes hands. Music was the first, and books are coming next. The Kindle or some form of electronic book is clearly inevitable, and it will massively reshape how books are sold, who pays for them, and how they're consumed. It is going to be really fascinating.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Art, Hands, Ipods

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• It is never appropriate to comment on a woman's breasts. I would never do it on the street or at a supermarket, but when I'm sitting a table signing books, sometimes I notice that a woman will have remarkable breasts. And I will maybe quietly say something about it. It's not in a sexual way, because I'm a gay man - I would never say to a man "great ass" because that would be sort of creepy.. I hope it's not creepy to quietly tell a woman she has nice breasts.

  David Sedaris

  Nice, Gay, Men

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• I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Fun, Reading

  Source: content.time.com

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• I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing that hasn't changed: Whatever the delivery system, whether it's a magazine, book or blog, people like vivid writing, strong stories and credible people. So while the venue is changing rapidly, human nature isn't, which I find soothing.

  Anna Quindlen

  Strong, Writing, Years

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

  Misha Collins

  Writing, Use, Internet

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• I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

  Tim Gunn

  Couple, Library, Next

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery.

  Tim Gunn

  Hate, Comfort, Pieces

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• For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Christian, Rosary, Firsts

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