Book Quote by William Targ Download Open image “Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?” — William Targ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Compare Excitement Opening Parcel
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other… — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share
With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you,… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out from between their pages – a special… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time... Of course it's not remotely like seeing a baby… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so. — William Targ Copy Share Image
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons. — William Targ 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
