Book Quote by Sylvia Beach Download Open image “Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes.” — Sylvia Beach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Difficult Fitting People Shoes
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are… — Susan Lendroth Copy Share Image
Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home.” — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“There are some people, if you can only get to learn the length of their feet, you can always fit them with shoes afterwards.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“If you haven't walked in someone else's shoes, it's difficult to know the fit.” — Heather Wolf Copy Share Image
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title. — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
[On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or you publish… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over… — Sylvia Beach 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
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