Quotes About Book
I have begun a new book, on purpose that I might have room enough to explain the nature of the perplexities in which my uncle Toby was involved, from the many discourses and interrogations about the siege of Namur, where he received his wound.
~ Laurence Sterne
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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;——they are the life, the soul of reading;—take them out of this book, for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them;—one cold eternal winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer,——he steps forth like a bridegroom,—bids All hail, brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.
~ Laurence Sterne
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Every book is an alchemical creation, and I'm thinking back to 1857 when Herman Melville arrived in Greece and saw the Parthenon for the first time sitting there like a great beached whale, its big white bones exposed to the winds. But how can this happen? How can a whale turn into a building? Or into a book? In what way can words be alive?
~ Laurie Anderson
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I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
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I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing and bombs dropping and bodies blowing up and war sucking.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
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But there is supposed to be sex in this book, isn't there? I suppose I could write a chapter without having anybody do anything to anybody, just talking and thinking, but it seems a bad idea for the very first chapter of the book. The reader might get discouraged. It seems, oh, very egoish to feel that total strangers will be that interested in what one says or thinks, but everybody
~ Lawrence Block
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The book was How to Write a Novel, by Manuel Komroff; a professor at Columbia University, he was a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction. His book, published in 1950, is available from used booksellers for between $10 and $25.
~ Lawrence Block
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Brad Steiger's recently published book, Sex and the Supernatural. (Perhaps Steiger and Tracy can someday collaborate on Sex and the Supernatural Stewardess, for that matter.)
~ Lawrence Block
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all the topics embraced in the title of the Kronhausens' fine book Pornography and the Law.
~ Lawrence Block
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seem to be the only person to have used the name Ben Christopher on a book. Strange, innit? Strange Embrace
~ Lawrence Block
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I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.
~ Lawrence Durrell
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
~ Maxim Gorky
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Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
~ Galileo Galilei
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What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
~ Francis Collins
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As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.
~ Augustus De Morgan
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Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.
~ Dennis Weaver
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In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
~ Rudy Rucker
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If you are looking for a lover, a job, a new house, or a serial killer, Snoop is for you. It's great science and a fun read by a world-renowned personality researcher.
~ James W. Pennebaker
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Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.
~ Sharon L. Reddy
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~ zweig stefan
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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
~ Abraham Lincoln
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The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.
~ Adrian McKinty
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Nothing...They're from nothing,' he said. 'They came in the book...I found the book and inside were these flowers...They were in the book when I bought it... I bought it used...Because they meant something. 'To someone else.' 'To someone.
~ Aimee Bender
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Indeed, these lenses and compasses are perhaps the most important components of America's unwritten Constitution, and they form the organizational spine of this book. Fair
~ Akhil Reed Amar
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