#book

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books. ↗

— Stephane Mallarme

#books #flesh #i #read #sad

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#amendment #anything #books #business #films

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea. ↗

— Yann Martel

#books #brilliant #center #club #event

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. ↗

— Yann Martel

#been #book #different #every #failure

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. ↗

— Yann Martel

#bullets #fashion #grenades #i #long

May books spread the world over! ↗

— Yann Martel

#may #over #spread #world

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? ↗

— Yann Martel

#dances #each #every #i #i write

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine. ↗

— Walter Martin

#areas #basic #bit #book #collected

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue. ↗

— Walter Martin

#backing #book #conference #extrapolate #general

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#book #books #collaborating #embarrassment #i