books

About to start the Origin of Species in 1856: What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low & horridly cruel works of nature!

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Big book, a big bore.

[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.

Husband to his wife: "You could lose a lot of weight if you'd just carry all your diet books around the block once a day."

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?