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If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.
Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.
I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.
I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.
I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.
Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.
I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.
I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.
If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.
A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.
Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.
So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.
I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.
I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.
I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.
I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."