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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own ... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale. By Miguel De Cervantes Authors Tis Nature Citation Easiest

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. By John Ruskin Books Classes Time Divided Hour

ISBN 978-0-300-11633-5 By Richard Sennett Isbn

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it. By Jim Harrison Peace War Fun Thing Typed

This new book is going to get itself finished - and published! You see if it doesn't. By Jean Webster Finished Published Book

Of all books printed, probably not more than half are ever read. Many are embalmed in public libraries; many go into private quarters to fill spaces; many are glanced at and put away ... scarcely opened until the fire needs kindling. The most ardent book-lovers are not always the greatest readers; indeed, the rabid bibliomaniac seldom reads at all. To him books are as ducats to the miser, something to be hoarded and not employed ... So pleasant it is to buy book; so tiresome to utilize them. By Flora Haines Loughead Printed Half Books Libraries Spaces

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose. By James Agate Reading Miss Writing Prose Good

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. By Lafcadio Hearn English Index Great Defects Books

For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next. By William Goldman Life Book Time Actively Interested

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner. By Anne Fadiman Odd Shelf Library Long Belief

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity By Bertrand Russell Literature Inexhaustible Book Homage

Should you dare to ride this dreadful beast, you would awaken later as if from a deep sleep, with some of these printed scraps clutched in your hands. Fragments would hint at ideal books, impossible books, books that you have always longed to read. By Thomas Wharton Beast Sleep Hands Books Dare

Yeah, I'm working on the 7 volume of "The Life Of One Kid", but the cover it's not written 7 volume... By Deyth Banger Volume Kid Yeah Life Written

A library is never complete. That's the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection. By Catherynne M Valente Complete Library Collection Joy Seeking

Nancy carried a cardboard boxes loaded with books toward the moving van that Saturday morning. Our eyes met and we shared a smile. "You didn't have as much stuff when you moved in," she pointed out wryly. "How many boxes of books is this? Seriously. It's like you're living in a freaking library." I shrugged. "You know me. I have a bit of a book fetish." "I wouldn't mind the books if you'd join us in the 21st century and get an e-reader already. Then when you move a thousand books from place to place, I don't risk throwing my back out. By Anonymous Saturday Books Nancy Morning Carried

Books aren't something you sell! They're something you buy and collect and accumulate in big piles! By Hideyuki Kurata Books Sell Piles Buy Collect

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake. By Walter Raleigh Cake Anthology Plums Orange Peel

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination. By Jonathan Swift Abstracts Abridgments Summaries Etc Collect

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. By Vannevar Bush Ready Wholly Amplified Forms Encyclopedias

Estimates are that in 2012, more than 32 million books were available - the explosion, thanks to the ease of self-publishing; 2013 could see even more titles grace our virtual bookstores! That means we are going to be awash in covers and titles, plot descriptions and characters. By M.j. Rose Estimates Million Explosion Selfpublishing Bookstores

The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse, is irreversible. By Jason Epstein Books Languages Digitally Delivery Mouse

Dictionaries, manuals, grammars, study guides and topic notes, classical authors and the entire book trade in de Viris, Quintus-Curtius, Sallust, and Livy peacefully crumbled to dust on the shelves of the old Hachette publishing house; but introductions to mathematics, textbooks on civil engineering, mechanics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, courses in commerce, finance, industrial arts- whatever concerned the market tendencies of the day - sold by the millions of copies. By Jules Verne Sallust Viris Dictionaries Manuals Grammars

Complete it-you cannot sell an unfinished book. By Craig Dirgo Complete Book Ityou Sell Unfinished

Originally self-published, in different form, as an ebook in 2011 . By Andy Weir Originally Selfpublished Form Ebook

Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks. By Tina Brown Books Conventional Beast Longer Longform

A new regulation for the publishing industry: The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed. By Calvin Trillin Industry Discussed Regulation Publishing Advance

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher. By Julianna Baggott York Times Book Turn Publisher

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts. By Alberto Manguel Theft Borrowings Gifts Entity Unaided

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners By Isaac D'israeli Great Damp Worms Rats Borrowers

I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind. By Adam Foulds Collector Editions Book Fussy Mind

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was. By Daniel Clowes Eightball Book People Read Bookstores

In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which are frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you ... And thus you pass the outer girdle of ramparts, but then you are attacked by the infantry of Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered. With a rapid maneuver you bypass them and move into the phalanxes of the Books You Mean To Read But There Are Others You Must Read First, the Books Too Expensive Now And You'll Wait Till They're Remaindered, the Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback, Books You Can Borrow From Somebody, Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too. By Italo Calvino Books Read Shop Window Promptly

A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. [ ... ] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70) By Neil Postman Past Book Attempt Make Permanent

Book the First - Recalled to By Charles Dickens Recalled Book

The committees scour the bookstores, printing and publishing houses, paying particular attention to secondhand bookstores. There, they requisition countless copies of 'Incautious Maidens' or 'Flames at the Metropole.' So that those who prefer the false view of the world presented in cheap novels will never find refuge again. By Mariusz Szczygiel Bookstores Printing Houses Paying Committees

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Experience Public Libraries Volume Book

Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies. By Jeff Vandermeer Contamination Crosspollination Fiction Conversation Anthologies

There were books involved. By Brandon Sanderson Involved Books

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. By C. Northcote Parkinson Professor Mind Reels Multiplication Books

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed. By Dave Morris Publishing Past Destroyed Great Deal

Ebook compilation by RefineCatch Ltd, Bungay By James Crosbie Bungay Ebook Compilation Refinecatch

It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either. By Barbara Hambly Books Digital Freebies Strange Love

In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback. By Christina Baker Kline Libraries Collectors World Hardcovers Reviewers

I said. "But there are bibliophiles the world over it would reduce to tears of joy." No exaggeration. Harley's [book] collection's worth a million-six ... By Glen Duncan Harley Book Joy Exaggeration Collection

I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in 'Publisher's Weekly,' and it looks like it will be dark, I'll track it down. By Ellen Datlow Read Anthologies Collection Hands Publisher

I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort. By Sergey Brin Google Book Time Effort Hundred

As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices. By M.j. Rose Choices Consumers Books Thousands Faced

I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man. By Jimmy Fallon Dan Shaughnessy Man Book

I unloaded several archive boxes from my trunk and began filling one with books. They compiled a cross-section of the counter-culture bestseller list of the sixties and seventies: Stranger in a Strange Land, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Walden, On the Road, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Catch 22. I By Dan Duffy Books Walden Unloaded Archive Boxes

But greater than all these delights would be the possession of this wondrous library for my own use and pleasure. What more could my bibliophile's soul ask for? Here were marvels without end, treasures beyond knowing. You have seen the worst of me in these confessions. Here, then, let me throw into the opposite side of the balance, what I truly believe is the best of me: my devotion to the mental life, to those divine faculties of intellect and imagination which, when exercised to the utmost, can make gods of us all. By Michael Cox Pleasure Greater Delights Possession Wondrous

I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment. By Lewis Buzbee Thousands Books Possession Shelves Home

The eighth and ninth floors housed the library. It had several million volumes in open stacks, all the major newspapers and periodicals either bound or on computer, and a map section. Expert librarians maneuvered a seemingly limitless budget to keep it well maintained and up-to-date. The reference collections were wonders of the world. By Mark Helprin Library Eighth Ninth Floors Housed

For years I have been coming to this library, and I explore it volume by volume, shelf by shelf, but I could demonstrate to you that I have done nothing but continue the reading of a single book. By Italo Calvino Volume Shelf Library Book Years

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. By Robertson Davies Miser Bookcollector Combine Worst Characteristics

Beware the man of the single book By Bertrand Russell Beware Book Man Single

I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn. By Helene Hanff Anthology Die Mine Till Love

Chapter Nineteen By S.d. Smith Nineteen Chapter

Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and those rubber stamps with columns of rotating numbers. "Ms. Auerbach! What will it be today? Camus? Cervantes?" "Actually I'm looking for a book of poetry by Emily Dickinson"He paused somberly, toying with the twirled tip of his mustache. No matter how seriously librarians are engaged in their work, they are always glad to be interrupted when the theme is books. It makes no difference to them how simple the search is or how behind on time either of you might be running - they consider all queries scrupulously. They love to have their knowledge tested. They lie in wait, they will not be rushed. By Hilary Thayer Hamann Counter Performing Numbers Odonnell Library

Books: our unfailing companions By Marcus Tullius Cicero Books Companions Unfailing

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all. By A. S. W. Rosenbach Love Book Collecting Exhilarating Sport

CHAPTER LIII AND LAST By Charles Dickens Chapter Liii

My publishers, two Catalan brothers with an inherited income, took me out to lunch to inform me that the first print run would be only five hundred copies. Five hundred readers? I accept! And the lunch was delicious. By Francine Prose Catalan Publishers Income Copies Hundred

Most best-sellers are written for readers who are willing to be passive consumers. The blurbs on their covers often highlight the coercive, aggressive power of the text - compulsive page-turner, gut-wrenching, jolting, mind-searing, heart-stopping - what is this, electroshock torture? By Ursula K. Le Guin Consumers Bestsellers Written Readers Passive

Something: the Book By Ted Stetson Book

Ebooks had to happen. By Jeff Bezos Ebooks Happen

volumes of Once Upon a Christmas Wish On SALE for only 99 cents each. By Samantha Bayarr Christmas Sale Volumes Cents

There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books. By Zilpha Keatley Snyder Ink Books Paper Dust Hush

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. By Jack Vance Ports Call Book Writing Suddenly

PROLOGUE CHAPTER By Horace Greasley Prologue Chapter

Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. By Carlos Ruiz Zafon Samson Books Cemetery Forgotten Ignatius

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published. By Victoria Strauss Published Books Wonderful Terrible

Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing. By Christina Baker Kline Hardcovers Disappear Completely Hold Substantial

Sence and Sensibility, for instance, came out in three separate volumes, as did Pride and Prejudice (so the next time you read one of the ubiquitous time-travel Austen adaptations and somebody picks up a single-volume first edition, you can hit your nerd buzzer and say "wrong!"). By Amy Smith Sensibility Prejudice Wrong Pride Austen

My depth of purse is not so greatNor yet my bibliophilic greed,That merely buying doth elate:The books I buy I like to read:Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,Beneath a cloudless summer sky,By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,The books I read - I like to buy. By A. Edward Newton Read Thames Tyne Books Buy

orders. This report closely resem bles the Purchase Journal. By Elaine Marmel Orders Journal Purchase Report Closely

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out. By Thomas Lansing Masson America Seventy Libraries Million Books

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry. By Alexei Maxim Russell Envelope Selfaddressed Stamped Industry Representation

Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can fairly be called a library.I don't know what percentage of them I have read. Increasingly I wonder how many of them I ever will read. This has done nothing to dampen my pleasure in acquiring more books. By Marilynne Robinson Read Aggregate Years Collected Fairly

I want to kill every best-seller list and encourage Americans to discover for themselves inspired new literature that will endure in perpetuity. Let's pluck from squalid obscurity underground, and publish, the next Hemingways, Fitzgeralds, Morrisons, Bellows, Barths, Vonneguts and Faulkners. By David B. Lentz Americans Perpetuity Fitzgeralds Morrisons Bellows

this is a book about something By C.s. Lewis Book

I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one! By P.n. Elrod York Times Lists Anthologies Selfpublish

The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you're deluged with. You can just say you never got to it. By Jim Shepard Friend Student Etiquette Hard Books

My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed. By Lev Grossman Edition Specialty Collector Buy Books

I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care. By Kate Braverman Care Knew Book Mine Finished

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online. By Carrie Coon Bibliophiles Review Husband Huge York

The bookworm of great libraries. By Nathaniel Hawthorne Libraries Bookworm Great

With a hardcover, you get two chances, a year apart, for the book to make an impact - often with a new cover featuring artfully crafted snippets of reviews, a new marketing campaign and maybe even a new publisher. By Christina Baker Kline Hardcover Chances Impact Reviews Publisher

A whole society in 7 books. Absolutely fabulous from the inside and outside. By J.k. Rowling Books Society Absolutely Fabulous Inside

Distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction) By Seneca. Distringit Multitudo Distraction Librorum Abundance

What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed. By Jennifer Donnelly Tracks Stopped Dead Books Floor

We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring. By Tom Raabe Priorities Biblioholics Minutes Flat Bring

Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled with historical curiosities and esoteric advice, the book explains legends, the paranormal, and the people who experience the fringe. Have fun, but don't get too close this book may be contagious. By Jeff Belanger Infamous Rose Violini Almanac Incredible

Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis. By Hilary Mantel Collector Nights Osmosis Thought Book

Epilogues are for Tolstoy By E. M. Forster Tolstoy Epilogues

At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished one: a library made up of fragments, quotations, unfinished sentences, amputated stumps of books. By Umberto Eco Quotations Library Reconstruction Greater Vanished

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor. By Hugh Walpole Inebriate Savor Bibliomaniac Books Bottles

Encyclopedia-selling was known to be the last resort of the feckless, the inept, and the desperate By Margaret Atwood Encyclopediaselling Feckless Inept Desperate Resort

The cover or jacket protects the book, identifies the author and title, and carries the blurb. The ISBN and bar code enable ordering. By Giles Clark Book Identifies Title Blurb Cover

This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average person is so widespread that it deserves some detailed examination. By George Orwell Buying Reading Examination Idea Books

The Book BoothThere's not a big selection,It's not locked for protection,But at the intersectionOf Booth and Telephone,Two customers politelyCan snuggle in it (tightly)And go once over (lightly)The books they'd like to own."Readcycle" means you leave one -A book you love. Retrieve one ... Who knows? You might receive oneYou haven't read before.Hats off to the committeeFor such an itty-bittyLibrary in the city,Which proves that less is more. By J. Patrick Lewis Readcycle Book Booth Tightly Lightly