Quotes of: History-book Keyword

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

Mary Roach

What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

Aaron Swartz

You have made some notes, read some writing books, and done some research. Mostly what you've done is talk about writing a book. An idea for a book is not a book; it is a waste of time. There is no singular thing that makes someone a writer, but ther...

78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might

But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood in knee-high piles on the floor, books were crammed sideways and right side up in a narrow bookcase th...

Dangerous Laughter

(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it s...

Ray Bradbury

A book is a book is a book.

Maurice Sendak

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

Vikram Seth

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Collected Essays

In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and you will be at peace.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

You did love me," I whispered. "Just not the same way I loved you.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

Darkness at Noon

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

The Early History of Rome:

Australian History: .... does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.

Following the Equator - Part 7

Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.

At Faith's End

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

I’m thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.

Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World