Quotes About Book

I'd like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression of continual tedium in a sensual nightmare.

I'd like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression that you've traversed a sensual nightmare.

Ai que prazer Nao cumprir um dever, Ter um livro para ler E não o fazer!

Tens um livro que não lês, Tens uma flor que desfolhas; Tens um coração aos pés E para ele não olhas.

Trellis wants his salutary book to be read by all. He realizes that purely a moralizing tract would not reach the public. Therefore he is putting plenty of smut into his book.

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: "If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product." My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you're not a lady? she says.

Early in 1955 Flannery completed work on her second book, a collection of these stories which she entitled A Good Man Is Hard to Find. In January we sent it to press, having set publication for June. I remember our amusement at Evelyn Waugh's reaction to the advance proofs we sent him: "If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable.

It's very hard for me to write back to some of the fan mail, so one of the things I wanted to do was reach out through a book.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

My dad is a man that, for as long as I can remember, has kept a book of favorite things his kids say.

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the book and bought the rights to it.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

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

'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.

It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.