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For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.
Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.
A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.
I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.
For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.
It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.
I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.
My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he's getting calls from girls to see if I'm home!
Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.
To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.
A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a book.
I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.
I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.
She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.
Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.
Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.
While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.
There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.
Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.
Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.
I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.
Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built
I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.
I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.