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Quotes About Book

I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
~ Taylor Jenkins Reid
While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural History of the Senses' - an anthropological and sociological look at the senses. But it also has this great sense of enthusiasm.
~ Jeremy Podeswa
My name's all about the bible. Malichai was either just a book or a prophet or both, although my mother couldn't even get the spelling right. That was so like her. [...] But he felt more often, he was the prophet, letting his enemy know he was doomed.
~ Christine Feehan
Do you want me to come to the hospital? she offered. Bryant's blue eyes widened. Good Lord, no, why would you want to do that? I'll take a paperback. Reading a book is the finest way of attaining inner peace.
~ Christopher Fowler
The great thing about writing a book is that it brings you into contact with people whose opinions you should have canvassed before you ever pressed pen to paper. They write to you. They telephone you. They come to your bookstore events and give you things to read that you should have read already. It's this dialectical process that makes me glad I chose the profession I did: a free education that goes on for a lifetime.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I think', said Sally, 'it must be marvellous to be a novelist. You're frightfully dreamy and unpractical and unbusinesslike, and people imagine they can fairly swindle you as much as they want - and then you sit down and write a book about them which fairly shows them what swine they all are, and it's the most terrific success and you make pots of money.
~ Christopher Isherwood
I'le burne my bookes; ah Mephostophilis.
~ Christopher Marlowe
I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291).
~ Christopher Paolini
I own a book, he thought, delighted.
~ Christopher Paolini
And when you are done with the book bring it back and I have something special for you!" She had a huge smile on her face. I said, "Thank you, ma'am," but I didn't get too excited ' cause I know the kind of things librarians think are special.
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
You can make a lot of money from a book, but that is done by using a book as a marketing tool.
~ Tucker Max
Reference piece 9.2: How Writing A Book Can Build Your Brand, and 9.3: How to Make Money With Your Book.
~ Tucker Max
Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped. -from the Prefatory
~ Twain, Mark
Her yerde erinç arad?m, ama hiçbir yerde bulamad?m, bir kitapla çekildiÄŸim köÅŸeden baÅŸka.
~ Umberto Eco
I sought peace in everything, but never was I happier than in a corner with a book
~ Umberto Eco
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro" (T. Kempis)
~ Umberto Eco
writing a thesis is like writing a book, working incrementally with the professor is a communication exercise that assumes the existence of an audience
~ Umberto Eco
Cartea a dovedit ce poate, È™i nu vedem un alt obiect mai bun pe care l-am putea crea pentru aceeaÈ™i întrebuinÈ›are.
~ Umberto Eco
someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.
~ Umberto Eco
Aún no se ha escrito ningún libro donde el asesino sea el lector.
~ Umberto Eco
Ma da questo libro quante menti corrotte come la tua trarrebbero l'estremo sillogismo, per cui il riso è il fine dell'uomo! Il riso distoglie, per alcuni istanti, il villano dalla paura. Ma la legge si impone attraverso la paura, il cui nome vero è timor di Dio.
~ Umberto Eco
Omnis mundi creatura quasi liber et pictura       nobis est in speculum (All the world's creatures      As a book and a picture      Are to us as a mirror)
~ Umberto Eco
What's the book about? I must admit I haven't read it. It's over five hundred pages long, which is a mistake — any defamatory work ought to be readable in half an hour. =
~ Umberto Eco
Opera aperta is a polemical book, in marked conflict with the Crocean aesthetics that dominated the Italian academic world in the early sixties.
~ Umberto Eco