Book one Quotes

“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to”

“A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in that way. For a book has the remarkable property that it can be interpreted any way you wish. If one talks like a book one’s conversation acquires this property too. I kept quite soberly to the usual formulas. She was surprised, as I’d expected; that can’t be denied. To describe to myself how she looked is difficult. She seemed multifaceted; yes just about like the still to be published but announced commentary to my book, a commentary capable of any interpretation. One word and she would have laughed at me; another and she would have been moved; still another and she would have shunned me; but no such word came to my lips. I remained solemnly unemotional and kept to the ritual.― ‘She had known me for such a short time’, dear God, it’s only on the strait path of engagement one meets such difficulties, not the primrose path of love.”―from_Either/Or: A Fragment of Life_. Abridged, Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Alastair Hannay, p. 312”

“I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.”

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”

“If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.”

“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written., 8 September 1935)”

“children need love most when they don't deserve it”

“Children need your LOVE especially when they don't deserve it”