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- One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're…
- Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.
- In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or…
- That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us…
- What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or…
- I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me…
- Books belong to their readers.
- You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
- You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore -…
- Books are like tweets, except longer.
- I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a…
- I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
- I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible…
- I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot…
- Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
- When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
- Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his…
- Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going…
- They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could…
- All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she…
- Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved...…
- I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than…
- I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating…
- Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in…
- Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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- 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