Best Real Books Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Do not be a soft, helpless victim in this world. Be sharp. Be dangerous. Do not become a slick, polished version of a human being. Keep your rough edges. Read real books. Books that hurt to read. Listen to music that makes you want to tear your chest open and show the world your beating heart.”

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Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“I fear the day when the technos decide that paper books are obsolete and we are reading from PC screens and iPods and eBooks, and we never again experience the little rush of opening a new book and cracking the spine and smelling the print and diving deep into the thoughts of the writer.”

Real Books Paperback Vs Ebook Forbes Interview

Author:Suzanne Somers

“Real books, unlike schoolbooks, can’t be standardized. They are eccentric; no book fits everyone.”

Eccentric Real Books Standardised

Book:The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

“I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them.”

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Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.”

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Book:Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research

Source: Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research

“Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.”

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Author:Clifford Stoll

“I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.”

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Author:Gary Shteyngart

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.”

Way Book Real Old Ways Real Books

Author:Oliver Stone

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest”

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Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“You can tell a book is real when your heart beats faster. Real books make you sweat. Cry, if no one is looking. Real books help you make sense of your crazy life. Real books tell it true, don't hold back and make you stronger. But most of all, real books give you hope. Because it's not always going to be like this and books-the good ones, the ones-show you how to make it better. Now.”

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Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.”

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Book:Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“The book has very specific qualities. Let's say in 2300 they discover the physical book, after having lived with the digital book for several hundred years. They'll be able to say, "Look at all the cool stuff you can have in a real book and how different it is." The differences are manifold.”

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Author:Art Spiegelman

“If you're going to visit and re-visit a book, it has more reason to be a real book, because of that ability to concentrate and that relationship that you build up with it, as opposed to the relationship that you build up with your screen, rewards replacement.”

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Author:Art Spiegelman

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

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Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”

Source: Parnassus On Wheels

“She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.”

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Author:David Lubar

“Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.”

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Author:J.M.G. Le Clézio

“The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.”

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Book:Reflections

Source: Reflections

“I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.”

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Book:How Do We Know the Bible Is True?

Source: How Do We Know the Bible Is True?

“If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.”

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Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.”

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Author:Edward Tufte

“Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people's minds and souls.”

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Book:Letters Home

Source: Letters Home