Quotes by Book I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help. A. N. Wilson interest helping book The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone 'Stuck in Love', with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep - not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds. A. O. Scott tears running book What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books. A. S. Byatt change book people There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board. A. S. Byatt glasses book ideas A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. A. S. Byatt numbers book children I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not. A. S. Byatt book people I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. A. S. Byatt writing book people Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban. A. S. Byatt air book lying When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life. A. S. Byatt book children television Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape. A. S. Byatt later-in-life giving book I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling. A. S. Byatt daughter mother book Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery. A. S. W. Rosenbach reading book children I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book. A. S. W. Rosenbach journey book lying After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all. A. S. W. Rosenbach collecting sports book I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked. A. Scott Berg age book firsts I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years. A. Scott Berg night book school Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books. A. Whitney Brown oxygen two book Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing. A. Whitney Brown names mistake book There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing. A. Whitney Brown stupid mistake book Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so too be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. Aaron Ashmore games dream book «1234567891011»