Unwanteds Book Quotes

I've always wanted to write an airport book. ~ Elizabeth Hand

I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed ... It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume. ~ Jonathan Lethem

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands. ~ C. G. Jung

I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I wrote a book; why not a letter? A mysterious but truthful answer is that while I can gear myself up to do a novel, letters, real-life communications, are too much for me. I used to rattle them off easily enough; why is the challenge of writing to friends and acquaintances too much for me now? Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key
as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away. ~ Saul Bellow

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. ~ Neil Gaiman

We are unique not by comparison but by compassion (the moral of my book The Cheetah and the Snail) ~ Shriram

A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive. ~ Ivor A. Richards

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie. ~ Gillian Flynn

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him. ~ Victor Hugo

Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures ... And many live by these three things in solitude without books. ~ Saint Augustine

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty. ~ Karin Slaughter

You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it's up to you to pass it as you please. ~ Charlotte Eriksson

That's just blood. And in my book? Choice wins out over blood every time." -Hallie ~ Myra McEntire

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that ... ~ Bella Andre

Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Book. Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong. The crowd one day cried, "Crucify him," and the whole world united to murder the Son of God, because in their ignorance they knew Him not. ~ Alan Redpath

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side. ~ Nora Ephron

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it ~ James Bryce

Bod was obedient but curious. ~ Neil Gaiman

My favorite business book of all time is experience. ~ Noah Kagan

This object that we hold in our hands, a book ... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. ~ Michael Moore

Jesse, who rematerialized at the end of all of this, had a little smile on his face, having clearly overheard.
"It isn't funny," I said to him sourly.
"It's a little funny," he said.
"No," I said, "it isn't."
"I think," Jesse said, cracking open the book Father Dom had loaned him, "it's time for a little reading out loud."
"No," I groaned. "Not Critical Theory Since Plato. Please, I am begging you. It's not fair, I can't even run away."
"I know," Jesse said with a gleam in his eyes. "At last I have you where I want you ..."
I have to admit, my breath kind of caught in my throat when he said that.
But of course he didn't mean what I wanted him to mean. He just meant that now he could read his stupid book out loud, and I couldn't escape. ~ Meg Cabot

If this was a book written by men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit, then its admonitions about sin were not applied cultural phobia. ~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world. ~ Tim LaHaye

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dear Reader,
This book you hold is a treasure, of sorts, as is every book I have ever known.
I have made it for you – especially you – for reasons you will understand as my words unfurl before your eyes.
Turn these pages tenderly.
You hold my life in your hands. ~ Kelly Gardiner

In getting from Windsor to Detroit there is a choice between a free tunnel and a toll bridge, which turned out to be a short ride for a dollar, which I mentioned to the toll-collector who said, 'One of those things,' impelling me to remark to my cousin, 'Almost everything said by people one sees for only an instant is something like poetry. Precise, incisive, and just right, and the reason seems to be that there isn't time to talk prose. This suggests several things, the most important of which is probably that a writer ought not to permit himself to feel that he has all the time in the world in which to write his story or play or novel. He ought to set himself a time-limit, and the shorter the better. And he ought to do a lot of other things while he is working within this time-limit, so that he will always be under pressure, in a hurry, and therefore have neither the inclination nor the time to be fussy, which is the worst thing that happens to a book while it's being written. ~ William, Saroyan

There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I'd gotten sunburned. ~ Eudora Welty

She loved to return to the world of the book, a workd in which people were willing to let go of everything in order to follow their passions. ~ Brian Morton