Books Quote by Nadine Gordimer Download Open image ““Books don't need batteries.”” — Nadine Gordimer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Technology
“Books are like a movie that makes you smarter and lasts for hours and doesn't run out of battery.” — Ranbowfut Copy Share Image
Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I'd rather spend my money on books than unnecessary electricity...” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Books are like batteries, he says. And you grow a little stronger by reading them, surrounding yourself with them.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“when people don’t have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The best thing about a book is that you don't have to plug it in.” — Joseph Voelbel Copy Share Image
“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.” — John Waters Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.” — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this… — Nadine Gordimer 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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
