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Book Quotes by John Updike
- The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and…
- I think books should have secrets, like people do.
- Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture,…
- Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by…
- I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a…
- Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this…
- The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth,…
- I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
- I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year.
- A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy of a sort;…
- If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number…
- I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in…
- Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.
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- 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
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- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood