Book Quote by Sergei Dovlatov Download Open image “There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase” — Sergei Dovlatov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Reason Serious Suitcases
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Books aren't just made of papers, pages and words. They're made of hopes, dreams and possibilities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not the shape,cover, or length of the book that matters. But the story itself — Veronica Nolan Copy Share Image
“It holds my essential stuff, including a book—for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so rarely fit,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Books are like the last parachute in the dying situation in the plane of life, helpful to soothe the sorrows and get rid of… — Farid Copy Share Image
“There is something unique about the size, and shape, and feel of a real physical book, and there is a real discovery about running… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think of books as like a life raft. They save us from mundanity, they draw us to a poetic, multi-faceted world. We all… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus. — Sergei Dovlatov Copy Share Image
“I had three long conversations with Marusya over a cup of coffee. She told me her whole rather silly story. To some degree we… — Sergei Dovlatov Copy Share Image
Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing. — Sergei Dovlatov Copy Share Image
Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity. — Sergei Dovlatov Copy Share Image
Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of… — Sergei Dovlatov Copy Share Image
There is no greater tragedy for a man than a total lack of character. — Sergei Dovlatov 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