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A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Quote by Franz Kafka

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Quote by John Witherspoon about books, contentment

If your Check-Book and Bank-Balance Sheet agree... Re-Do-It... You Goofed Up.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about bankers, contentment

Eighty percent of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed about the one book you didn't read.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, tests, contentment

The book or periodical most vital to the completion of your term paper will be missing from the library.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about school, education

No matter which book you need, it's on the bottom shelf.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, need, contentment

The library will close 5 minutes before you remember that you left your book bag inside.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about irony, education, contentment

All mother's have a How To manual. That's because they wrote the book.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about mother

Language is the book of nobility of a nation.

Quote by Vasile Alecsandri about language, nation

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages, he's fantastic.

Quote by Timothy Olyphant about contentment

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about books

The first edition was 100,000 copies, a huge economic risk for the publisher. I was quite proud of the fact that the book was not banned or censored.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about economy, risk, proudness

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about heredity, heroism, god, experience

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about thinking

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about books

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are. d

Quote by Sara Paretsky about literary critic, name

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has...

Quote by Walter Pater about beauty, literary critic, common sense, sense, wisdom, art, magic, love

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about thinking, chance, work

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about research

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about writers, sun, day