Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Selling, Wells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Reading, Library

• [The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
  [Referring to the diverse holdings of the library, including motion pictures, photographs, recordings, posters and other historic objects which collectively far outnumber the books]

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Science, Library

• The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Answers, Helping

• Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Stars, Book, Reading

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

• It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Needs, Information

• Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Messengers, Slave

• The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.
  Answering criticism that the book for which he won a Pulitzer Prize was written in the years he had been employed at the Smithsonian. He specified that did not write on the premises there, but only at home outside of working hours.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Home, Writing

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