Book Quote by Sven Birkerts Download Open image “Where am I when I am involved in a book?” — Sven Birkerts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Funny Inspirational Involved Love
When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you,… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“It is in adolescence that most of us grasp that life--our own life--is a problem to be solved, that a set of personal unknowns… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“What reading does...is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not sequenced of lived moments, but a destiny.” — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Every place, once unique, itself, is strangely shot through with radiations from every other place. ‘There’ was then; ‘here’ is now. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner… — Sven Birkerts 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… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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
