Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.
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Related There is something for everyone at our book sales. We usually have everything from science and scien... ESTHER BUCK The books the children get to choose from are always brand new books. We try to have a mixture of re... DONNA CLAPP It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. JO WALTON I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of an... C.S. LEWIS He was inspired, and yet he wants books! He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wan... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know,... JOHN SCALZI There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for bo... L.A. WEATHERLY Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Everything in this store benefits my kids. Those books go into the classroom. I had a little boy who... BARBARA BOSSER A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section. STEVE MARABOLI Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them wh... RAY BRADBURY Our goal is to collect as many donated books as possible for a designated delivery before Christmas.... GREG WRIGHT Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe. MARGARITA ENGLE In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for... TRENTON LEE STEWART As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores... GAIL CARRIGER The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and... NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier. HANYA YANAGIHARA The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE If they read two books then two books will be given to 'First Book,' ELIZABETH MOORE The Big Book of Easy Suppers CHRONICLE BOOKS Murder Alfresco: A Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mystery CHRONICLE BOOKS Highballs High Heels: A Girl's Guide to the Art of Cocktails CHRONICLE BOOKS The Beatles Anthology CHRONICLE BOOKS Even thought you can't see it, my son, things are changing. Things ALWAYS change, given enough time ... EXO BOOKS Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob POCKET BOOKS The Journey is the Destination CHRONICLE BOOKS It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not ev... EXO BOOKS In this moment, everything is sacred. ARIEL BOOKS Sadly, history shows us that people literally scrambled their children's brains with heavy exposure ... EXO BOOKS [T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels... PAUL AUSTER All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... ROBERT HARRIS We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo... ALICE MOORE Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiogr... ARTHUR SMITH If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another colleg... R. ALBERT MOHLER JR. Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - B... ITALO CALVINO The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new... ART SPIEGELMAN Paper and leather binding for books are greatly appealing. It's going to be a transitional period. A... DICK BRASS We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w... CORY DOCTOROW There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old perso... ELIZABETH MOON ("we appreciated the intricately thought-out, detailed universe you've created for your story." ~Art... ARTHUR A. LEVINE BOOKS I think an upside to book stocks will come if these two books generate a lot of traffic into booksto... HOWARD TUBIN When you buy a book, you have it forever. With these electronic books, you often are prevented from ... GREGORY NEWBY I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based ... RAY BRADBURY Our objective is not to replace books. Just as video tapes have expanded the market for viewing movi... JAMES SACHS I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have t... DAN BROWN I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books -... DONALD TRUMP I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES CUSTOMER (to her friend): What's this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain abou... JEN CAMPBELL Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it. DAVID BERGEN There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas... MICHAEL MORPURGO He loved books; books are cold but safe friends. VICTOR HUGO One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others... MARY ROACH As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. I... OSCAR WILDE If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would ha... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they coul... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON His goal (Bezos's)was not just to make browsing for books easy, but an enjoyable experience. “Peop... RICHARD L. BRANDT The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor ... WALTER BENJAMIN Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c... BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c... BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness. TOM DELONGE We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library
filled with books in many differen... UNKNOWN The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we hav... LAURA BUSH He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how th... CHARLES CALEB COLTON He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how th... C. C. COLTON One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance t... GILLIAN CROSS I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ... RAY BRADBURY When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not th... DIANE RAVITCH I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer al... CARLOS FUENTES Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w... PATRICIA BRIGGS To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They'r... PAMELA PAUL Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff i... KATHRYN ERSKINE Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old book... AIDAN CHAMBERS My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them i... JON SCIESZKA Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore. THEA DORN Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. JOHN RUSKIN Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method... WALTER BENJAMIN Some of [my books] are expensive. I usually get book vouchers from my loans and use that money to bu... JAMES DEMPSEY I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books abou... MARY POPE OSBORNE Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish me... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One of these years they will be right. If there is ever a safety or the game goes into overtime, eve... JAY KORNEGAY It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, t... TERRY PRATCHETT Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first boo... FRANCIS BACON Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicor... URSULA K. LE GUIN All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. JOHN RUSKIN All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. JOHN RUSKIN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which ca... ROBERTSON DAVIES Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If th... ERICA JONG I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science ficti... CONNIE WILLIS Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what i... ALBERTO MANGUEL There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. JOSEPH JOUBERT A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children wi... HORACE MANN Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking ... WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book. ANGELA M. HUDSON [What guided Einstein was that, in his mid-twenties, he found the unknown intriguing. He felt compel... ALBERT EINSTEIN Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. STEPHEN CHBOSKY He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to off... J.M.G. LE CLéZIO Travel teaches as much as books. YOUSSOU N'DOUR
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