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Quotes About Book

subject" and "genre" are distinctions necessary for shelving a book, but necessarily ruinous distinctions for writing a book deserving of shelving
~ Joshua Cohen
Narcissism, justly lamented for doing so much damage, especially within the family unit, could also work miracles, as when a fundamentally apathetic collection of illiterates gets wind that they appear as characters in a book and transforms overnight into a bunch of rabbinical scholars.
~ Joshua Ferris
The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.
~ JR (Artist)
anxiety, new fathers were a thousand times worse. Anything that didn't go by the book threw them into a tizzy. Being informed that there was no book threw them into an even bigger tizzy. Allison was the hospital's expert on new fathers. She had a genuine talent for un-tizzy-ing them. "Hi," she said gently. "This is Allison Winslow. What can
~ Judith Arnold
There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don't think I have any, because I only feel great when I'm lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits.
~ Judith Flanders
For the love of God, woman, there's only one rule in that bloody book worth following.' 'And that is?' Elizabeth asked disdainfully. 'That you marry your damned marquis!
~ Julia Quinn
In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.
~ Kit Carson
I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.
~ Justin Halpern
'Game Change,' the infamous bestseller written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, has plagued anyone directly associated with the 2008 election cycle.
~ Meghan McCain
I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.
~ Edward P. Jones
I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.
~ Todd McFarlane
When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
~ Lamar Alexander
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
~ Robert Stack
It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
~ Philip Schaff
And so another season passed, and I hadn't seen Brian, yet another terrible tangle with Peter went by, and anyone who loved me I avoided like the plague. Can things get worse? I kept wondering, and surprisingly, they did. Until finally I read this book by Fay Weldon, and she talks about a woman married to a depressed man and explains there's nothing you (i.e., women) can do about them. And fiction got through to me where facts had feared to tread.
~ Eve Babitz
With great effort, she dragged her attention away from the book
~ Eve Babitz
En cada página está el poder de decir lo indecible… al igual que está en la historia entre bastidores del propio libro
~ Eve Ensler
Rarity: Or, should I say that I've ever imagined! Spike: Oh yeah we should definitely go by- (loud gasp) Twilight Sparkle: Spike! Never ever ever take another book at the castle with out asking! Spike: What? Just being honest, it's what good friends do. (Twilight growls)
~ Evil Rarity
Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands.
~ Ezra Pound
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
~ Ezra Pound
If God wants there to be unbaptized believers in heaven, that is up to him. All we know and all we can preach is what we read in the Book. And from what we can read in the Book, there is no such thing as salvation, redemption, or justification apart from penitent, faith-prompted immersion.
~ F. LaGard Smith
El libro en manos santas, es objeto santo; pero el libro santo en manos profanas, en profano se convierte.
~ Federico Andahazi
La trama de mi vida es la de un libro absurdo en el que lo que debería ir primero va luego. Es que este libro mío yo no lo escribí, ya estaba escrito: simplemente lo he ido cumpliendo página por página sin decidir. Sueño con escribir la última por lo menos, de un tiro, por mano propia, pero los sueños sueños son y a lo mejor ni eso
~ Fernando Vallejo
Please read this [book] so I'll have someone to talk about it with? I'll get you cigarettes.
~ Fiona Staples