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I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.
A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.
If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.
When I was a kid, I used to be way more nerdy about comic books and comic book characters. I still love them, but I don't collect anymore.
Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.
When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.
I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.
I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing.
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever.
Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.
Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.
It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.
Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses.
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!
It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.
[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.
I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to be discovered
I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living cook books and detective stories.
His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.
Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
If you want to hurt me, fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I am sleeping. But nobody, nobody screws with my dog.
Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.
Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.