Writer Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

8 Writer quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

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Daniel J. Boorstin’s eight reflections on writing reveal a historian’s eye for narrative flow. This brief collection provides a quick look at his view on shaping facts into compelling stories.

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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

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I write to discover what I think

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By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

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Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known…

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Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed

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Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

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[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

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It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

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Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space…

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The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question…

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“The shadow has become the substance.”

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In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed.…

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Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of…

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