“ The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. ”
- John Mortimer- Copy
“ Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. ”
- Greg Egan- Copy
“ It wasn't like that when I started out in Omaha (in 1957). I walked into the clubhouse here and I remember the one we had in Omaha was about one-third the size of that. ”
- Bob Gibson- Copy
“ To make a libraryIt takes two volumes And a fire.Two volumes and a fire, And interest.The interest alone will doIf logs are few. ”
- Carolyn Wells- Copy
“ I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished. ”
- Haruki Murakami- Copy
“ The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how… ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
“ Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ”
- Martin Tupper- Copy
“ Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
“ The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ”
- James M. Barrie- Copy
“ A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
“ And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. ”
- George Chapman- Copy
“ Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
“ Borrowers of books — those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
“ Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
“ I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel, and by nightfall, it's a paragraph in my column. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
“ Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. ”
- Gunther Grass- Copy
“ Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
“ Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
“ Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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