Printed Books Quotes (page 3)

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• fairy
• godfather
• saying

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your... C. S. Lewis

• believe
• die
• hard

At one time, the state of culture in Czechoslovakia was described, rather poignantly, as a 'Biafra of the spirit'. . . I simply do not believe that we have all lain down and died. I see far more than graves and tombstones around me. I see evidence of this in . . . expensive books on astronomy printed in a hundred thousand copies (they would hardly find that many readers in the USA) . . . Vaclav Havel

• book
• sports
• booking

They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along. Cleo Moore

• book
• die
• author

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print. William Goldman

• success
• good
• book

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. Shelby Foote

• book
• light
• great

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. Robert M. Hutchins

• reading
• change
• work

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. Lawrence Clark Powell

• book
• booked
• very

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them. Paula Danziger

• book
• personality
• effort

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person. John Sergeant Wise

• bible
• book
• printed

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. Patrick Henry

• book
• writing
• evening

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it. Patty Hearst

• english
• book
• great

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. Lafcadio Hearn

• book
• reading
• new

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. William Hazlitt

• work
• book
• sleep

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work. Mary Oliver

• book
• writing
• end

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print. Laurell K. Hamilton