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Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.
Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit
Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right.
Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.
One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting.
I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?
I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!
Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.
When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.
When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.
Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.
I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.
Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.
When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.
There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.
I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
I would have specific books [when I was 12 or 13] that had pages that I knew had sex on them that I would go and read.
I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)
I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.
I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.