Quotes of: Comic-books Keyword

It is acknowledged that father-daughter incest occurs on a large scale in the United States. Sexual abuse has now been included in child abuse legislation. A conservative estimate is that more than 1 million women have been sexually victimized by the...

Year Book of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health

As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like. For an adult reader, the possible v...

A Certain World: A Commonplace Book

There were pools of light among the stacks, directly beneath the bulbs which Philip had switched on, but it was now with an unexpected fearfulness that he saw how the books stretched away into the darkness. They seemed to expand as soon as they reach...

Peter Ackroyd

I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry Potter did feel ultimately to me...just the fact everybody had married everybody. The books were so real and so grounded in what things are really li...

Joss Whedon

But the process should not be confused with science. When tests are used as selections devices, they're not a neutral tool; . For one thing, the tests tend to screen out - or repel - those who would upset the correlation. If a man can't get into the ...

The Organization Man: The Book That Defined a Generation

I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they w...

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book. But I do think that whatever you do, you should do regularly, whether it’s waking up at midnight and drinking vodka or wakin...

Charles Finch

Liesel Meminger: Do you think my mother really loved me? Max Vandenburg: Of course. Every mother loves her child. Even Hitler's. Liesel Meminger: Do you think she writes to him? Max Vandenburg: "Dear Führer, just wait until your father gets home! Lo...

The Book Thief

One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all theologies and all religious formulations of beliefs may still find Genesis the sublime book par excellence. E...

Walter Kaufmann

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

The Camel Club

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Clarence Darrow for the Defense

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

The Cold Cold Ground

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

Chains

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

a commentary on Jonah

There's only three things you need to do when you are finished editing your book - Sleep! Sleep! and Sleep!

Chained to Mineola

Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.

The Confessions of a Misfit

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

The Complete English Poems

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

The Complete Poems

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

The Complete Poems