Quotes About Book

Atticus adjusted his glasses as he peered down at the blanket. "Hey, is that the book Nellie told us abo

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Novelists who carefully deliver their coups de théâtre , artfully hold back their dividends (how much? fifteen per cent?), who wait till the end of their book to unveil the enigma, have always seemed to me like shopkeepers anxious not to lose a penny on their wares. (spoken by He)

I think the Moslems have gone beyond the ethic and traditions of the Koran. But in spite of that, the Koran is still a great book, one that's read by Moslems and non-Moslems alike.

A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.

Pour moi, je n'ai guère cessé de penser, depuis lors, aux incidents de ce voyage. Entre autres projets, j'esquisse une suite de mesures qui, étendant à notre franc l'extrême versatilité du franc suisse, le mettraient assez vite à la portée de toutes les bourses. Ce sera l'objet du petit livre qui fait suite à celui-ci.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Late into the night she reads, and the lamplight falls in a soft circle across her tented knees, across the warm blankets, across Luca's casting breath. In their new home, Lydia rereads Amor en los tiempos del colera, first in Spanish, then again in English. No one can take this from her. This book is hers alone.

The best nonfiction book on the war came out in 1988 by a former war journalist, Neil Sheehan. Titled A Bright Shining Lie

I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book; now I would see a book as prolegomena for the notes.

Andavo già a scuola da qualche mese, quando accadde una cosa solenne ed eccitante che determinò tutta la mia successiva esistenza. Mio padre mi portò un libro.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

The Bible is the ultimate book of wisdom and advice.

Whenever anybody tells me they want to write a book in order to help other people, I always think, Oh, please don't. Please don't try to help me.

He said there is a place in Gaul, the oldest church in their part of the world, where some of the Latin monks have outwitted death by secret means. He offered to sell me their secrets, which he has inscribed in a book. The abbot shudders. God preserve us from such heresies, he says hastily. I am certain, my son, that you refused this temptation. Dracula smiles. You know I am fond of books.

The people round about are persuaded that I am, to put it as kindly as possible, exceedingly eccentric, for the news has traveled that I spend the day out of doors with a book...

A murdered author was a marketing hook to die for. Jane

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.

Oh, m'encanta Kafka, diu la mare. Un llibre hauria de ser una destral per trencar el mar de gel de dins nostre. Penso que és una de les coses més boniques que s'han escrit mai.

Doing this in the context of this very descriptive book about the human body conveyed the message "This is just a natural part of your body.

The secret shape of this book is a parachute all the lines leading to the person hanging there drifting on the wind and always falling waiting for the mists to clear