« All Books Quotes · George Steiner's Page
Books Quotes by George Steiner
- Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
- He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of…
- Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum…
- Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or…
- Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity
- Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is…
More Books Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- 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 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
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — 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
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine