Quotes About Book

The prospect of seeing them no more, contributed greatly to calm her agitation, and, taking up a book, she composed herself to read.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there; but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book, & ransack every page.

A dirty book is rarely dusty.

This book is an introduction to logic, as contemporary logicians now understand the subject. It does not attempt to be a textbook, however.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

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.

Trovo la televisione molto educativa. Ogni volta che qualcuno la accende, vado in biblioteca e leggo un buon libro.

Groucho Marx "This is not a book that should be set aside lightly - it should be flung with great force.

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

I used to walk by the river An old book under my arm The river is the same as pain It elapses mindlessly And when will the week be over

Il tempo è come le pagine di un libro: nel momento in cui legge la pagina 66, le pagine 67 e 68 sono già scritte.

Comme Margaret Atwood, je pense que vouloir rencontrer un écrivain parce qu'on aime son livre, c'est comme vouloir rencontrer un canard parce qu'on aime le foie gras.

When she opened the book, the white pages were so bright against the shadows that filled the forest and the words they offered granted shelter and comfort. The letters were like footprints in the snow, a wide white landscape untouched by pain, unharmed by memories too dark to keep, too sweet to let go of.

My aim in this book has been throughout an historical, not an apologetic aim.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people's lives.

Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn't easy, but it's fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question "Why should I buy this book?

perhaps within me the desire to put off that which I most in the world desire of late keeps watch, I mean, to write a book but a wounded book, a contentious, broken book, a book not pleased to be a book, to be only a book, to be born in the absence of my friend, a book incapable of acting as if the last times were not upon us, but which at the same time cannot act as if it were only a book hence a being unaware of the end, unaware what time it is.

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don't have the courage or strength to write.