Quotes About Book

The book you don't read is a journey forsaken.

Understand the power of a novel's opening lines. It sets expectations & draws the reader into the book's world.

The material must be appropriate to the interests of the audience (or readers), and each must relate to the persona of the performer (or writer). Throughout the book, we'll show you how to create and follow the MAPP to successful humor writing.

From the shadow of domes in the city of domes, A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That's all There was to it.

Editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end loads of polish people turn up.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 [gibberish]. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You".

Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat.

I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.

A book for everyone concerned about our common future.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.