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What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known! — Jules Verne

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for? — John Irving

What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1 — Lewis Carroll

Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job. — John Le Carre

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal

What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?

-Alice in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll

The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic. — Tony Romo

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. — Angela Carter

Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. — Bernie Sanders

The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside. — Jay Ryan

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story. — Chris Van Allsburg

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other. — Siri Hustvedt

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page. — Rick Yancey

You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book. — Thulani Davis

What an astonishing thing a book is. — Carl Sagan

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour. — John Irving

The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him
one of the principal uses of a book. — Susan Sontag

Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error.. — Roseanne Barr

Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene. — Philip Gerard

My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to. — Sarah Dessen

What is a book for if not to be read? — Rachel R. Smith

What a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. — Louis L'Amour

Describing colors to a blind is what writing is all about. — Viraj J. Mahajan

- The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it. — Marlon James

What makes a book memorable is the message it etched in the readers' minds. — Tista Ray

What is indispensable to inspiration? ... sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write. — George Orwell

I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me. — Haruki Murakami

Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is ... — Carew Papritz

This is what made a book great, she thought, that you could read it over and over and never get tired of it. — Jeanne Birdsall

It's like reading a good book. The kind where you don't want to skip pages to see what happens at the end. Each moment is a story in itself. — Renee Carlino

Please tell me you're not going to leave 'cause I'm dying to know what happens! I'm a romance reader and this is like a live action romance book! — Kelly Elliott

Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it. — Ali Smith

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book. — George MacDonald

What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading. — Carmela Dutra

And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning? — Gustave Flaubert

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in awhile. — J.D. Salinger

Sometimes I pretend I have an insomnia problem when what I really have is a good book and a lack of respect for tomorrow's schedule. — Anonymous

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books. — William Finnegan

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve. — John Gregory Dunne

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about? — Donald Miller

I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it. — Clifton Cameron

Past is like a histroy book were we can learn what weve done in it. — Skyla

A human being writes the book, but what writes for him or her is more spirit than physical being, and that spirit lives only in solitude. — Elizabeth Berg

What's in a book, is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader get out of it. — William Golding

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. — Mark Twain

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold. — Betsy Lerner

What is a gentleman, anyway?
He's a man who prefers the first edition of a book to the last edition of a newspaper. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be. — Margaret Atwood

A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what have you done but nobody else does."
~Madi Preda — Madi Preda

Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?' — Dani Shapiro

What use is a good book ... if you cannot share your pleasure in it with another? — Manu Herbstein

What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style. — Russell Smith

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction. — Nicholas G. Carr

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first. — Blaise Pascal

Normally, what you're envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels ... almost nonexistent things. — James Salter

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true. — Plato

In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific. — Anne Hathaway

And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation? — Lewis Carroll

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all. — Lisa Gardner

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. — Mario Batali

All you need is one golden apple - a single apple that somebody else wants - and you have control. (Fateful Night, Book One of What She Knew Trilogy) — K.R. Hughes

David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants. — Malcolm Gladwell

It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book you can write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

eBooks are just digital copies of analog books. Convenient, yes. But we have the technology now to rethink what a book is. — David Conger

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film. — Tilda Swinton

What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever. — Eoin Colfer

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs

The book is a beautifully broken window with an obstructed view of what is killing us, and something is definitely killing us. — Erika Swyler

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Something is very wrong. What began as a passing fascination with the book has turned into something darker, — Erika Swyler

A wicked curve appears on his lips. No, you're wrong. I'm allowed to say whatever I want. What I'm not allowed to do is what I want. — Alex Rosa

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay. — Rivers Cuomo

A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find. — Emily Rodda

One must become a book before one can know what is inside it. — Don DeLillo

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written. — Paulo Coelho

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end. — Barbara Park

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can. — S.A. Tawks

One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club. — Flannery O'Connor

That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid nastily. "How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't count. — Terry Pratchett

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books? — Friedrich Nietzsche

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it — James Bryce

I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting. — Damon Galgut

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) — Christopher Nolan

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it! — Robert B. Parker

If a book doesn't make you want to throw it aside and think your own thoughts, what use is it? — Lars Iyer

Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart — Carmela Dutra

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is. — Carew Papritz

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late! — Jeanette Winterson

This is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes we take what we value for granted. There — Ray Bradbury

Get a peek at what married life is like for Layken and Will in This Girl, the third book — Colleen Hoover

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed. — Mark Epstein

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer. — Kimberly Willis Holt

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves. — Sam Brownback

A good book appeals to what is best in us.... — Scott Russell Sanders