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Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders.
Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.
The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book.
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered
Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.
I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.
I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.
I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"
I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.
My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.
The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.
Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.
If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.
The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.
Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.
Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.
I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.
Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.
I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.
I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.
So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.
AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.