Quotes About Book

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

In this Postscript I distinguish references back to the revised text of this book by placing these in italics thus (262), from references to the works of other authors under discussion, which are thus (p. 162). account

Mr. Charles Darwin, who looked a bit like God which is interesting, wrote a book called You're a Fucking Monkey, Mate. He played around with the title for a while: We're All Fucking Monkeys; You're a Fucking Monkey, Mate; Get Out of My Face, You Fucking Monkey. And he ended up with On The Origin of Species.

Very different conditions of life confronted them from those we face, but it is ever to be borne in mind that though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

Mrs. Grancy acquired the charm which makes some women's faces like a book of which the last page is never turned. There was always something new to read in her eyes. What Claydon read there—or at least such scattered

I read the other day in a book by a fashionable essayist that ghosts went out when electric light came in. What nonsense!

Well, my dear fellow, if you say so. But who is the Botticelli murderer?' 'I don't know.' 'But you must know by now, my dear fellow,' said the Major plaintively. 'We're practically at the end of the book.' All

with which we have attempted to clothe it; I am trying — as in the book that follows — to remove the whole subject from the plane of morality and to give an objective account of the expansion of the United States.

But any book that is any good must be, to some extent, autobiographical, because one cannot and should not fabricate emotions; and although style and narrative are crucial, the bulwark, emotion, is what finally matters. With luck, talent, and studiousness, one manages to make a little pearl, or egg, or something . . .

A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.

When Lad died, in September of 1918, I collected the ten or twelve yarns I had written about him, and I tried to sell the collection as a book under the name, Lad: A Dog. I was told that there had been no worthwhile dog books since Bob, Son Of Battle and The Call Of The Wild and that the public did not want that kind of fiction. There was no demand; there was no possible profit. Any volume with a canine hero was foredoomed to fall flat.

No hay como tener un libro clave para uno firmado por el autor que lo escribió.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

One of the great merits of Meillassoux's book is that it has (re)opened not so much the question of the relationship between philosophy and science as the question of whether they are speaking about the same world.

In keeping with the personal tone, Jones wanted to call the book From Julia's Kitchen, but the author demurred: "People won't know who 'Julia' is," she said. "Of course they will!" the editor retorted, trying not to laugh. In the end, they opted for the more formal From Julia Child's Kitchen.

That a few fanatics had flown airplanes down into all of that seemed less surprising to him than that legions more hadn't yet done the same. Half the world or more was already setting itself against all the complexity in one way or another, going to off to live in caves or gated communities, dreaming of a world with one god, one book, a world small enough to feel that one wasn't lost in it.

Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas.

From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.

I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.

Visibility is one of the most difficult parts of the self-publishing equation. No matter how great your book is, it is fighting against a tidal wave of cheap ebooks on Amazon.

The secret to 'Year One' is that it's a Jim Gordon story. It's a great Bruce Wayne story, don't get me wrong, but Jim Gordon is the focus of that book. To me, that's the stronger emotional arc. It's not that the Bruce Wayne stuff isn't masterful, because it is, but it's Jim's book.