13 quotes found
“People write for ego gratification, not money.”
“Music is like poetry, It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up.”
“It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.”
“Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.”
“It's a nebulous thing, but it is my beliefmy experience alsothat women do not have the need to collect that men have.”
“It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.”
“But in this case, he continues, tracing the line of the plasterwork with one finger, I feel that there is one cliche that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attempt a...”
“I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books o...”
“We're high on the adrenaline of feeling, even though we know it's fleeting and evanescence. And we're getting worse -- checking texts and emails and Facebook every five minutes, always searching fo...”
“You know, what I've always done is take a look through a book, look at the paper stock, the printing, the publisher, the actual content, and, taking everything into account, I price it. . . . And n...”
“I think there is no difference between love and infatuation. If it works out, we call it love; if it doesnt, we shrug our shoulders and say it was infatuation. Its a hindsight word.”
“That thing that Hamlet says - "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so". Not quite true if you are stuck under a grand piano, not quite true for genocide, but surely it must be...”
“But in this case,” he continues, tracing the line of the plasterwork with one finger, “I feel that there is one cliché that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attemp...”
