Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Love, I wrote the book on it. Unfortunately, nobody would publish it, so I felt compelled to burn my manuscript.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

One of my hobbies is reading finance and economic books—at the strip club, where I “invest” my money.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

The Waste Books

Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.

The Weeping Books Of Blinney Lane

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Russell Banks

It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book.

Stefan Sagmeister

Burn the book. It serves you once. Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime. Lend the book. It serves for generations to come.

Kowtham Kumar K

I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.

Matthew Settle

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

Megan Whalen Turner

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Joseph Joubert

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.

James Burrows

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

Joe Strummer

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!

Charles Anthon

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

Hugo Chavez

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

John Green

[from trailer] Hans Hubermann: Your first book! Are you sure this is yours? Liesel Meminger: It wasn't always mine.

The Book Thief

A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better.

Paul Theroux

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

Alejandro Amenabar

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Anatole France

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

Anatole France

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

Ursula K. Le Guin