Book Quote by Nicholas G. Carr

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the…

— Nicholas G. Carr

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

— Nicholas G. Carr

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about…

— Nicholas G. Carr

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

— Abraham Lincoln

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the…

— Paulo Coelho

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

— Christopher Morley

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.

— John Lanchester

I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it…

— Emily Barton

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

— William Peter Blatty

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you…

— Chris Van Allsburg