Christopher Isherwood Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Attitude, Book, Taken

• But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn't a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you'll forgive my saying so, anywhere.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Brother, Husband, Real

  Christopher Isherwood (1964). “A single man”

• These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Wise, Book, Hands

• The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Lying, Book, Reading

• I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Book, Knows

  Christopher Isherwood (2013). “A Single Man: A Novel”, p.129, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Book, Writing, People

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