Submarine Book Quotes & Sayings

Let me be candid. If I had to rank book-acquisition experiences in order of comfort, ease, and satisfaction, the list would go like this: 1. The perfect independent bookstore, like Pygmalion in Berkeley. 2. A big, bright Barnes & Noble. I know they're corporate, but let's face it - those stores are nice. Especially the ones with big couches. 3. The book aisle at Walmart. (It's next to the potting soil.) 4. The lending library aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia, a nuclear submarine deep beneath the surface of the Pacific. 5. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. — Robin Sloan

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. — Sid Meier

I have wanted to "make books" since around the sixth grade, and I published my first book when I was in my late thirties. My point is that the time in between was not wasted - submarine service, marriage, college, bringing up three kids, starting a school for them, and so forth. This kind of life experience is not distracting you from your appointed task of writing. It is, rather, the roundabout blessing of giving you something to say. — Douglas Wilson

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine. — Dylan Moran

Life is less about our experience, or the circumstances that occurred, and more about what we extrapolate from those experiences. — Trish Blackwell

Success does just happen. It happens to those who desire, plan and work for it. — Toni Sorenson

Standing at this liquor store, whiskey coming through my pores, feeling like I run this whole block — Bruno Mars

I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared. — Hedy Lamarr

A good book should make you laugh, cry or pee your pants. The best do all three! — G. Ernest Smith

Life is fleeting;
your joys make it seem even shorter,
but your sorrows make it seem too long. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If you think you can and think you can...you will! — Timothy Pina