Book Quote by Angela Carter Download Open image “A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.” — Angela Carter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Bottles Ideas Matter What matters Writing
A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper. — Frederick Philip Grove Copy Share Image
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
A book is like carrying a garden in your pocket. It always is full of life, new smells, and new things to see. Always… — Curly Copy Share Image
The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
A book is a better way to develop a complicated idea, or to tell a big story and to show how ideas weave in… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists fully only… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the window of her eyes… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.” - Angela Carter (1940-1992)” — Angela Carter Copy Share
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different! — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
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