Book Quote by Anatole Broyard Download Open image “The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.” — Anatole Broyard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Missing Moments Time
“ON THE RETURN OF A BOOK LENT TO A FRIEND I GIVE humble and hearty thanks for the safe return of this book which… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for… — Mel Odom Copy Share Image
I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available. — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Palm Sunday is like a glimpse of Easter. It's a little bit joyful after being somber during Lent. — Laura Gale Copy Share Image
Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I'm always a bit disappointed when I've finished working on a book. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like and ancestral portrait.” — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.” — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you are a sinking man. A writer's love for another writer is never quite free of malice. He may enjoy discussing your failures even more than you do. He probably sees you as tragic, like his… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
