Heavy Book Quotes

#1. I like a thin book because it will steady a table, a leather volume because it will strop a razor and a heavy book because it can be thrown at a cat.

Mark Twain

#2. A writer's place in a nation's literary history cannot be judged by whether or not he is capable of writing a book as heavy as a brick. That must rest on his contributions to the development and enrichment of that nation's language.

Mo Yan

#3. Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

Fran Lebowitz

#4. If you can look at one of these waves and you don't believe that there's something greater than we are, then you've got some serious analyzing to do and you should go sit under a tree for a very long time.

Laird Hamilton

#5. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

Coventry Patmore

#6. Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

Ovid

#7. We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, willoften peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Apo deepa bhawa"Sanskrit ; Be a light upon yourself
Buddha to Ananda during his last talks

Buddha Gautama

#9. I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

Olivia Holt

#10. What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover ...

Anne Rice

#11. I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.

Elie Wiesel

#12. People represented in book or film travel vast oceans of life unrecorded; studeo time costs money, and pens grow heavy.

Adrian Lamo

#13. Will you have any regrets once she's dead?
Brooklyn's question and her voice echoed in my head as I watched her walking to her house, her hips swaying tantalizingly at every step. A heavy weight fell on my shoulders because I didn't have to ponder that question to find the answer.

Stephanie Witter

#14. Flora had also learned the degraded art of 'tasting' unread books, and now, whenever her skimming eye lit on a phrase about heavy shapes, or sweat, or howls or bedposts, she just put the book back on the shelf, unread.

Stella Gibbons

#15. What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house.
You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie.

Cornelia Funke

#16. The story was heavy in her hands, the book spread open like legs, the letters very small i spite of describing such a big moment

Natalia Jaster

#17. She picked up her book and tried to read but it was heavy in her hands. She struggled to hold it, wanting to finish the story, wanting to know how it ended. She was afraid she'd run out of time before she ran out of book.

Louise Penny

#18. Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life.

Stuart Wilde

#19. I tried to lift the book in a kind of salute, but it was way too heavy for that. In fact,when I got back up to my room and tossed it on the bed,the mattress creaked in protest.

Rachel Hawkins

#20. The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.

Ben E. King

#21. Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Frank Herbert

#22. Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

Nawal El Saadawi

#23. There is a heavy price to pay for writing a bad book.

Tony Burgess

#24. As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Virginia Woolf

#25. Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

Victor Hugo

#26. Myself will straight aboard, and to the state
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

William Shakespeare

#27. When I open my mouth, the room rings.

David H. Murdock

#28. There were heavy beams - planks of sun - falling randomly, wonderfully, onto the road. Clouds arched their backs to lok behind as they started again to move on. 'It's such a beautiful day,' he said, and his voice was in many pieces. A great day to die. A great day to die, like this.

Markus Zusak

#29. The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

Azar Nafisi

#30. He was the first important person in my life to die, and when he did, it was the first time I realized that life is not fair or safe or even ours to own. I miss him.

Amy Poehler

#31. Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance.

Carew Papritz

#32. Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.

Veronica Roth

#33. You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.

William McDonough

#34. I think this is very applicable to men and women - that they are looking for love in all the wrong places.

Shari Wiedmann

#35. Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

Brock Yates

#36. Well, you know what they say, the reader is the final contributor. Cheers for doing the heavy lifting.

Brian K. Vaughan

#37. Writing is the act of creation. Put words on a page, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to seven-book epic fantasy cycles with books so heavy you could choke a hippo. But don't give writing too much power, either. A wizard controls his magic; it doesn't control him.

Chuck Wendig