Quotes about book
book no-money
In those days, there was no money to buy books. Ernest Hemingway
book interest
No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
book reading writing
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader
book judging quality
How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.
book writing sacred
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
book new-beginnings trying
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
book weather important
Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
book farewell-to-arms common
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
book reading boys
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
book reading writing
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
book light fiction
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
book usa literature
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
book new-beginnings writing
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
book tariffs economy
I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff. Ezra Cornell
book history use
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. Evita Peron
book sleep television
If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill. Ethel Merman
book gossip giving
I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures
book able inspired
I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired. Ethel Waters
book writing voice
My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice. Eudora Welty
book home sea
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.
book smell library
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
book ends coming-to-an-end
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
book reading smell
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...
book views discovery
The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then. Erwin Schrodinger
book slave-labor moments
At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day. Jhonen Vasquez
book writing people
I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people. Jhene Aiko
book
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
book personality style
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates. Jhumpa Lahiri
book firsts embrace
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
book men python
This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh will become part of our national dialogue about taxes and freedom. And it’s funny as hell. Author Jim Greenfield is a cross between Ayn Rand and Monty Python. If enough people read this hilarious ‘man versus state’ book, the IRS will be put out of business, which is okay with me. Grover Norquist
book reading writing
I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book. Groucho Marx
book giving nine
Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.
book reading wife
This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.