Clive James Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.

  Clive James

  Book, Want, Doe

  Clive James (2011). “The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

• When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it.

  Clive James

  Book, Should Have, Discipline

  "Clive James: life through the prism of illness". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2015.

• Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

  Clive James

  Book, Writing, Age

  "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. December 21, 2015.

• I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.

  Clive James

  Book, Order, Jail

  "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. December 21, 2015.

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