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urrrgggh, whyyyyy, narwhals are heaaaaavy and I'm reeeeeeeading,' and you'd say, 'but I want one! right now!' and I'd say, 'then go GET one, bossytail,' and you'd bellow, 'I AM YOUR QUEEN!' and I'd be like, 'yes, but this book is at a really exciting part though,' and theeeeen you'd probably have me executed.

She wished she could be out in the sunshine with a book and a kitten

She really really REALLY wished she'd brought a book with her.

I'm at a really good part," she said apologetically, holding up her book.

A secret hides within their book.

Each operation had a set of instructions, the relevant dimension, and how the process was done, all laid out in what was called in most shops "the book.

This is a book. It is a book I found in a box. I found the box in the attic. The box was in the attic, under the eaves. The attic was hot and still. The air was stale with dust. The dust was from old pictures and books. The dust in the air was made up of the book I found. I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.

Buy this book or I'll take it personally, and I will have my revenge. I'll steal your girlfriend or make out with your dad. It doesn't matter to me. Whichever will hurt worse. My vengeance knows no sexuality. You don't want this. Your dad does though. Yeah, like you didn't know your parents' marriage was a sham. Come on. Open your fucking eyes.

I must confess to generally hating sections entitled "how to read this book" and so on. I feel that, if I bought it, I should be able to read it any way I damn well please! Nevertheless, I feel some guidelines may be useful.

The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.

A reader meeting another reader is an encounter of kindred spirits. The pleasure of such a joyous event is impossible to describe to a nonreader, and why would I bother? But you, with this book in your hand, are familiar with the phenomenon, and so it is not necessary.

Finally, this being America," Bryson says at another point, "there is the constant possibility of murder." The bears leave him alone, he is not murdered, and apart from sore feet, he is hardly inconvenienced in what is, for all its mock ordeals, a likable book.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.

saw you, Sally Hemings is the name of it. It's in paperback for $3.25. She was Thomas Jefferson's slave and mistress for twenty-plus years. A really good book with real

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

Book marketing should be a planned process, an art if you will.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.