#book

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#book #feeling #gives #her #money

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#books #couple #go #i #lot

But then again, that's what the Book of Job was about to her, a cautionary tale about wanting there to be a God, wanting there to be someone who could enact what a God could enact, or who could sanction what the Devil would do. You want this, people? You want these kinds of powers? No, you don't, and here's why, and here's why it's sheer vanity to want them in any other entity. Look what sort of violence would rain down. Poor Job, sure, poor Job with his hives and his financial losses — though who needs three thousand camels? — and too bad about the kids, forgive me, they were delicious, so sweet and so cold, sure, too bad, but it's God who's the miserable bastard here. Look what he got himself up to! No good could come of that type of power; that's what the writer of the Book of Job was saying, and she knew the writer was right. ↗

— Michelle Latiolais

#god #power #forgiveness

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#academics #body #book #consumes #each

In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#booked #fact #go #in fact #march

I never travel without my sketch book. ↗

— Ian Wright

#i #never #sketch #travel #without

When I was writing my column, I would almost always be recognized when I was in a restaurant, even if I was reviewing it and had booked under a fake name, so free stuff would start coming out of the kitchen on a conveyer belt, fantastic wines would be opened at my table. Now I can't even get a reservation on the pizza joint on the corner. ↗

— Toby Young

#always #belt #booked #column #coming

The wise man reads both books and life itself. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#both #itself #life #man #reads

Until recently, I was an ebook sceptic, see; one of those people who harrumphs about the “physical pleasure of turning actual pages” and how ebook will “never replace the real thing”. Then I was given a Kindle as a present. That shut me up. Stock complaints about the inherent pleasure of ye olde format are bandied about whenever some new upstart invention comes along. Each moan is nothing more than a little foetus of nostalgia jerking in your gut. First they said CDs were no match for vinyl. Then they said MP3s were no match for CDs. Now they say streaming music services are no match for MP3s. They’re only happy looking in the rear-view mirror. ↗

— Charlie Brooker

#digital-age #ebooks #ereader #fiction #kindle