18th century Quote by Matthew Tobin Anderson Download Open image “Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.” — Matthew Tobin Anderson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare 18th century Book Books Broken Century Volume
It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.. — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Literate households in the 17th century would have had the Bible, John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," and a couple of other books. Shakespeare plays… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people,… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have? — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
“And the differences thence arising [between the constitution of men and women] are no ways sufficient to argue more natural strength in the one… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
“If from immemorable time, the Men had been so little envious, and so very impartial, as to do justice to our talents, by admitting… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men are weak… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes,… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
"The Constitution" has something called The Emoluments Clause. That's just a fancy, 18th century word for no foreign government payments. And Donald Trump is… — Norman L. Eisen Copy Share Image
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
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