Book Quote by Anthony Burgess Download Open image “The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.” — Anthony Burgess ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Possession Reading
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around.… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share
A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it. — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the… — Anthony Burgess 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
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