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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. (Quote by - Russell Banks)

We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)

We are from Day One going after every fan of the book. We want them to know that however they connected to the book, we've made a movie that's true to the book. (Quote by - Dennis Rice)

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. (Quote by - Edna St. Vincent Millay)

One book at a time.. though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive. (Quote by - Bernard Cornwell)

Judge a book by its cover,If the cover is on fire the book is probably HOT. (Quote by - Rozzu Loz)

The books the children get to choose from are always brand new books. We try to have a mixture of reading levels so none of the children picking a book will feel uncomfortable. (Quote by - Donna Clapp)

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Books are not men and yet they stay alive. (Quote by - Stephen Vincent Ben t)

You may have walked a million miles, made a million dollars and wrote a million books. Yet, those achievements are nothing compared to the greatest achievement of them all and tha s producing and raising a family. (Quote by - Conroy Sewepagaham)

A small publishing house is sometimes the way to go. I wanted somebody who would publish my book and care about my book. I wanted somebody to know my book and always remember it, and I found one. They take an interest in what you do. If they are committed to accept your book, then they are committed to you. (Quote by - Regina Lewis)

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. (Quote by - Katherine Mansfield)

At least two senators that I heard with my own ears cited this as a reason why they decided to vote to not allow a bipartisan majority to reauthorize the Patriot Act. Well, as it turns out the author of this article turned in a book three months ago and the paper, The New York Times, failed to reveal that the urgent story was tied to a book release and its sale by its author. (Quote by - John Cornyn)

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

During the course of that year, I'll probably have another book come out, .. I'll go on the road to promote it and do publicity. People think the life of a writer like me is easy. 'She writes those scandalous books and then she just lounges around.'. (Quote by - Jackie Collins)

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. (Quote by - Frank Dane)

You don't have to be a red neck to join The Red Neck Cafe on Face Book. You just have to think Obama is nuts. (Quote by - Jeanne E.)

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. (Quote by - Edith Lovejoy Pierce)

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

The primary goal is to generate new Chronicle Books loyalists by creating engaging, innovative and unique programming. I wanted something that even if you've never seen a Chronicle book and you hear it, you'd want to see a book. (Quote by - Andrea Burnett)

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I had been convinced that I should do the book because I was turning 40. Well, turning 40 doesn't mean that all of a sudden you know more than you did when you were 39 or 38, .. At the time, (canceling the book) was the hardest decision I had ever made. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)

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