Quotes about boo
book important matter
The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important. Markus Zusak
book writing giving
If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
book pages want
I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, "That's what I want to do with my life."
book reading writing
It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.
book next
As always, one of her books was next to her.
book race brutality
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
book writing
I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
book heart dark
On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved to see the frightening rubble and the swelling of the sky on the night he passed away. He'd have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body. He'd have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips. Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it all right. You see? Even death has a heart.
book classic praise
A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read Mark Twain
book cat razors
I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.
book adventure aunt
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
book heart three
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.
book years chapters
Every person is a book, each year a chapter,
book picks
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
book good-company company
If books are not good company, where shall I find it?
book someday grammar
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
book cat broken
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
book want faces
I don't want no better book than what your face is.
book law practice
There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.
book writing rotten
There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.
book heaven would-be
When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.
book adventure names
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.
book want wonderful
The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.
book chloroform print
The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print
book get-better pages
My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page. Marianne Williamson
book writing appreciate
I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
book notches top-notch
I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.
book life-is-like ends
Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.
book media california
Calling something "new age" is one of the media's biggest canons. If you're called "new age," you couldn't possibly be serious, you couldn't possibly have anything deep to say, and you probably hang out in California too much - and we know that no one in California reads books or has any serious thoughts!
book reading companion
No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion. Marian Wright Edelman
book comic-book comic
I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best. Maria Menounos
book play long
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long. Margot Asquith
book numbers years
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. Martin Lewis