Book Quote by Leah Price Download Open image “A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.” — Leah Price ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Cryptic Home Identity Naked Remains Self Shelves
“My book shelf is never empty because an empty one would steal my imagination.” — Laurie Bowler Copy Share Image
One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.” — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
“There is a simple rule: practice a kind of generous selfishness. Give a book to a friend, but don't lend it, because you will… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
“When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they've been. . . . It's a wonderful thing to have in a house. It's something I worry is endangered by the rise of the e-book. When you turn off an e-book, there's no map. All… — Leah Price Copy Share
“People sometimes act as though owning books you haven't read constitutes a charade or pretense, but for me, there's a lovely mystery and pregnancy… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
“I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” --Alison Bechdel” — Leah Price Copy Share
“Just as television didn't put an end to radio or the movies (to say nothing of books), I don't think e-books will put an… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
“Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12 We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
“RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
“I hate lending, or borrowing—if you want me to read a book, tell me about it, or buy me a copy outright. Your loaned… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
