I Am A Closed Book Quotes

#1. Up to a point, the weight and seriousness of such photographs survive better in a book, where one can look privately, linger over the pictures, without talking. Still, at some moment the book will be closed. The strong emotion will become a transient one.

Susan Sontag

#2. I'm an open book in a closed room.

Christina Strigas

#3. I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.

Gabe Newell

#4. She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wishing that what she said was true: that Dumbledore had really cared.

J.K. Rowling

#5. She slammed the book closed, ran to her bed, gathered her stuffed animals up in her arms, started chewing on her blanket, and cried for a while, considering the question of trolls.

Neal Stephenson

#6. I must part with you for my whole life," she read, with horror. "I must begin a new existence amongst strange faces and strange scenes." The truth of that closed the book for her, forever.

John Irving

#7. Her hands closed over his cock, gripping tightly as he pressed her up against the copy machine.

Sibylla Matilde

#8. The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.

Fred Saberhagen

#9. The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

Bent Larsen

#10. You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?" I asked as I closed the book's cover and headed for the door. "They always end up dead.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

Rex Stout

#12. I closed my eyes and immediately I pictured Brooklyn's full lips parted on a moan, her eyes glassy and her pupils dilated, her cheeks flushed and her body ... her smoking body bared only for me.

Stephanie Witter

#13. The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, a deep content, another friend.

Arch Ward

#14. And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.

Azar Nafisi

#15. My book Abraham and Obama will open up your mind even when your eyes are closed

Jerry Zerg

#16. I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

Nafisa Joseph

#17. You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading ... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

Steven Wright

#18. While we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices ... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#19. We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

Ernest Mandel

#20. Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.

Rodger Kamenetz

#21. and the book was closed, and the charm was broken. Then,

Jane Austen

#22. The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

A.D. Posey

#23. Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.

Michael Ondaatje

#24. When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good ... nothing is too difficult for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

#25. As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

Jose Luis Borges

#26. I'm not sure what is worse, a closed mind or a closed book.

Anthony Liccione

#27. Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

Siri Hustvedt

#28. Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

Thomas Ehrlich

#29. This book is a tribute to the men and women who dared. Who, to this day, endure ignorance, closed minds, righteousness, and prudery. Their lives are not easy. But their cocktail parties are the best. p

Mary Roach

#30. Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Peter Ackroyd

#31. He swatted at her with his book. "Shut up and read, will you?"
He lay back down and closed his eyes. Emma glanced over to check that he was smiling, and smiled too.

David Nicholls

#32. TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and doesn't let go, even after you've closed the book.

Tasha Alexander