Quotes About Book

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter. Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm waiting for the movie, Puck said.

It holds my essential stuff, including a book—for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so rarely fit, my friends, into one's pocket[…]

For true contentment, one must carry a book at all times.

I once read a book about a reporter written by a reporter who described the life as always running in front of a thresher. I thought it was the most accurate description I'd read.

We were parked in the lot of a strip shopping center on Tustin Boulevard in the city of Orange. Book Carnival was a small business between a rock shop and what looked like a vacant slot. Three doors down was a gun store.

Well, if this thing finally hits the radar, you can expect to see him. He wrote a bestselling book on the first go-round. I guarantee he'll be back for the sequel." Rachel thought about the book she had been reading on the plane and that was now in her bag. She wasn't sure whether it was the subject or the author that had drawn her

items belonging to the potential witness. There was a book called The Stand by Stephen King and a bag with toothpaste and a toothbrush in it. It all amounted to the meager belongings of a meager existence.

need a driver for the next few days, maybe more. You want to do it, the job's yours. I'm paying ten bucks an hour plus any meals. You'd have to bring a book or something because there will be a lot of sitting around waiting for me.

Danish statistician, Bjorn Lomborg, who wrote a book called The Skeptical Environmentalist.

She lays the book face down on her chest. Already her bedroom (no, their bedroom) feels more densely inhabited, more actual, because a character named Mrs. Dalloway is on her way to buy flowers.

Questo, ecco, proprio questo era ciò che lui aveva sognato tanto spesso e che sempre aveva desiderato da quando era caduto in preda alla sua passione: una storia che non dovesse mai avere fine. Il libro di tutti i libri.

Why, this was all about him! And it was the Neverending Story. He, Bastian, was a character in the book which until now he had thought he was reading. And heaven only knew who else might be reading it at the exact same time, also supposing himself to be just a reader.

Bastian miró el libro. <>, se dijo, <>.

Andrei Shleifer writes in his excellent book Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance:

Life is a book. The fact that it was a short book doesn't mean it wasn't a good book. It was a very good book.

He found a book called Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason. "It was like reading the owner's manual of the human mind," he later recalled. "Not the usual owner's manual, but an owner's manual that pointed out all the peculiarities and idiosyncrasies of how we

He found a book called Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason.

Meehl's book, called Clinical versus Statistical Prediction, had shown that psychoanalysts who tried to predict what would become of their neurotic patients fared poorly compared to simple algorithms.

found a book called Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason. "It

Character, that subtle art, disappeared among them during those days and nights, existed only in a book or on a painted wall.

I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.