Avoided Quote by Khaled Hosseini Download Open image “I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.” — Khaled Hosseini ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avoided Book Books Lure
Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
An e-book is not a physical book. That point might seem trite until you stop for a moment to think how much simpler it… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I occasionally read digital books when I'm traveling, but I do so begrudgingly. — John Romaniello Copy Share Image
The nice thing about e-books is that if you're sitting on the beach and you finish one Elin Hilderbrand novel and don't want to… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
“Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The reason was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element,… — Greta Scacchi Copy Share Image
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
The cost of an on-site inspection team would be minuscule compared to war, Saddam would have no choice except to comply, the results would… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
