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Book Quotes by James Gleick
- Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.
- The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement…
- As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can…
- As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can…
- It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
- A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection…
- Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search.…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood