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Books Quotes by Joe Queenan
- My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years;…
- Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.
- The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain…
- People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics. We believe that…
- Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read them…
- Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.
- People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.
- Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the…
- If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a…
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