« All Book Quotes · Mary Ann Shaffer's Page
Book Quotes by Mary Ann Shaffer
- But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca. . .Maybe that…
- I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables…
- Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
- Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
- That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book,…
- It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want…
- We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
- I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be…
- Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
- I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking…
- Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes…
- Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)
- I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.
More Book Quotes
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- 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