Best Their Books Sayings
73 Their Books quotes by 68 unique authors
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What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.
— Brent Weeks
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Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph,…
— Thomas Cahill
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The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also…
— Christopher Isherwood
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Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for…
— George Polya
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As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely and…
— Heather Brooke
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I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are…
— Vladimir Putin
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After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their…
— Leslie Cockburn
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Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the…
— Clayton Christensen
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Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.
— Claire Tomalin
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Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
— Alex Berenson
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Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.
— Chris Van Allsburg
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Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not…
— Mo Ibrahim
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A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not…
— Brian Wildsmith
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Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.
— Ruth Glick
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Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is a real danger…
— Graham Swift
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Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that…
— Lorrie Moore
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Reading their books over and over again, people continue making mistakes; they are so proud of their religious robes. But what is the use of…
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them,…
— Bible
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Don't judge people by their cover. Most of their books haven't been written.
— Uknown
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A thousand times goodnight. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. Love goes toward love as school boys from their books, but love…
— Unknown Author
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Never judge someones life based on the chapters of their books' pages you walked in on
— Mercy Pheona
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I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of…
— Paul Auster
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