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Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry (William of Baskerville)
Quote by -Umberto Eco
Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.
Quote by -Thomas Harris
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.
Quote by -Thomas Harris
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
Quote by -Thomas Mann
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.
Quote by -Thomas Merton
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
Quote by -Thomas Pynchon
I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
Quote by -Tom Waits
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Quote by -Toni Morrison
The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.
Quote by -Tony Dungy
Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.
Quote by -Tony Dungy
Does your sister read our books?” Anna wanted to know. “No. She reads literature.
Quote by -Tove Jansson
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Quote by -Salman Rushdie
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Quote by -Salman Rushdie
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
Quote by -Samuel Beckett
Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Quote by -Samuel Beckett
Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo!
Quote by -Stephen Colbert
A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?
Quote by -Stephen Colbert
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.
Quote by -Susan Sontag
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.
Quote by -Susan Sontag
The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.
Quote by -A. A. Milne
To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.
Quote by -A. A. Milne
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
Quote by -A. A. Milne
Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.
Quote by -A. A. Milne
You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see -- It would be my present to you, my sweet, If it weren't your gift to me.
Quote by -A. A. Milne
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
Quote by -A. A. Milne