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Quotes About Titles

I do have trouble with titles.
~ Jim Harrison
I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.'
~ Judy Blume
There's this trouble with books for me because I'm terrible at thinking of titles. The truth is, even with the titles that I've landed on in the end, they always feel wrong. I think it's because of this whole problem of having to package your book in a certain way.
~ Rebecca Stead
your mind, it would seem, these are but titles. Responsibilities one grows into, as it were. But the truth of it is, the title awaits only those who have already grown into a person worthy of the responsibility.
~ Steven Erikson
Ti­tles are granted or in­her­ited, no­bil­ity isn't. Whatever paper we receive, be it of material or immaterial value – it will never exceed the value of your character being loved by people!
~ Akilnathan Logeswaran
A publisher of books, which sell for a nickel, made a discovery that should be worth much to publishers generally. He learned that many people buy titles, and not contents of books.
~ Napoleon Hill
when Cabestany's secretary heard about the offer, she had a premonition. On her own initiative, she went to the warehouse and took a copy of each of the Carax titles. She was the one who had corresponded with Carax, and over the years they had formed a friendship of sorts. Her name was Nuria
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Until all titles are taken away Events are finally obscure forever You wake and wonder Whose case history you composed As your confessions are filed In the dialect Of bureaux and electrons
~ Thomas Merton
With a sense of fulfillment stronger even than the sating of his hunger that morning, for he'd been starved of books much longer than of food, Pico joined the browsers. Inhaling the odor of mildewed hide as if he'd entered a confectionery, fondling the bindings of stippled leather or buckled cloth, running his fingers across the raised letters of the titles as though blind, for a moment he wished he'd saved the coin to buy a book, then giggled at his folly.
~ Keith Miller
We won't be deceivedby titles such as Indispensable and Unique and Great.Someone else indispensable and unique and greatcan always be found at a moment's notice.
~ C. P. Cavafy
ya que todo pariente o amigo de la familia con edad suficiente para llevar el titulo con cierta dignidad, pasa automáticamente a llamarse tío o tía
~ Isabel Allende
Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.
~ Kate Klise
I can't come up with the titles. My wife hates my titles. She doesn't even want to know about them.
~ Robert Longo
We're getting to the point where it's important for each platform to have unique, differentiated titles -- so that if consumers want to buy that game, they have to buy that system
~ John Taylor
I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it. I write good books; I write great titles though.
~ Larry Winget
the former King Louis XVI, who, after titles were abolished, was now simply called Louis Capet - a mocking reference to his distant ancestor Hugh Capet, who had assumed the throne in the year 987.
~ Tom Reiss
Children are not guaranteed the luxuries of family, Ms. Wells," he said. "If people are unable to exist within the parameters that have been created for them, they lose any claim to titles like son and daughter.
~ Kevin Wilson
Titles were cheaper than dirt, and the riverlands were full of ruined castles, standing desolate amidst untended fields and burned villages.
~ George R.R. Martin
After all, how could you exercise choice if you didn't have a clue who you were? Labels weren't going to do it, titles like "mahmen" or "shellan" weren't really going to help you. You needed to dig into yourself and find out how to fill your hours with pursuits that were meaningful to you and for you, as a person, an individual. Too
~ J.R. Ward
It was great being the first twins to win titles in the same division, and I'm so proud of my brother. I knew he could get the job done.
~ Jermall Charlo
I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.
~ Madhur Bhandarkar
The bookshelf in my heart holds many titles. So can yours.
~ Sylvia McNicoll
The only albums that I have personally named were 'number 5,' 'number 8' and 'number 10.'
~ J. J. Cale
I don't own any of these names. I don't own Johnny World, Johnny Mundo, John Morrison, Johnny Nitro, Johnny Blaze or Johnny Impact. None of it.
~ John Morrison