Quotes About Paperback Books

#1. [T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of.

Paul Auster

#2. ...so much has been laid on the sunset - heavy-handed metaphors, sentimental music. Everyone's always walking into them, and that is some very intense light. Maybe that's where the term "love is blind" comes from, because so many people are walking into sunsets, burning out their corneas.

Kirk Farber

#3. Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

Berkeley Breathed

#4. Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.

M.J. Rose

#5. Let him talk," said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. "Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle.

Edgar Allan Poe

#6. The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

Adrian McKinty

#7. I really started self-publishing on a serious level in 2002. Those smaller books did well, ended up moving from doing a series to compiling everything into a trade paperback in about 2005.

Tim Fish

#8. Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

Terry Brooks

#9. Books might be your passion but you can't fuck a paperback.

Alexandra Potter

#10. None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.

James Purdy

#11. He'd been old, and I'd been little, but still, it seemed wrong that someone so comforting in his dailiness could simply stop existing.

Brenna Yovanoff

#12. She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

Jane Hamilton

#13. In my regular life, I don't really wear much makeup unless I'm going out.

Bianca Lawson

#14. Spend 80 percent of your time on books and 20 percent on articles and newspapers. And by books, I don't mean just any book. I mean hardcovers. A paperback is made to be read. A hardcover is made to be studied. There's a huge difference.

Tim Sanders

#15. Rip her dress off!" Bob shouted. Bob the Skull takes paperback romances very seriously. The next page turned so quickly that he tore the paper a little. Bob is even harder on books than I am.
"That's what I'm talking about!" Bob hollered, as more pages turned.

Jim Butcher

#16. The search for knowledge requires effort.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. My mind lets go a thousand things,
Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#18. Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse.

Stephen Colbert

#19. If not us, then who? Who's going to stand when everyone else kneels? Who's going to argue for the law even when there's no justice to be had? Who's going to try even when the trying is too damn hard?

Sebastien De Castell

#20. The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

Laozi

#21. You are already way more of an adult than you think you are. Truly. Be good, be decent, be responsible, be kind. And don't forget to send thank-you notes.

Kelly Williams Brown

#22. Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

Oscar De La Hoya

#23. Everything's digital now, but sometimes I'll buy a paperback if I love the book. I love the smell of them too. Like the first time you open them up, and they're fresh and new. Or old books,

Jay McLean

#24. The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book
it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

#25. Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#26. Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.

John Updike

#27. Fanfiction belongs online, books are published to be held.

Sky Diamond

#28. There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.

Nicholson Baker

#29. When you buy a jacket, it's important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

Daniel Pennac

#30. Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.

Wilbur Smith

#31. Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.

Paul Di Filippo

#32. Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!

Jim Rohn

#33. The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

Nhat Hanh

#34. We are in this life as it were in another man's house ... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.

Gerhard

#35. There are fans of some of the old movies that'll mention those, and there's people that have little kids that'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I just watched 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' 35,000 times, and here you are!'

Rick Moranis