Book Titles Quotes

• I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

  Mark Twain

  Trust, Believe, Book

  1900 Speech on'The Disappearance of Literature' at the Nineteenth Century Club, 20 Nov. Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Speeches (1910).

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• I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.

  Sylvia Beach

  Book, Thinking, Vocabulary

  Sylvia Beach (1991). “Shakespeare and Company”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Taken

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does -- or even should -- contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it.

  Charles de Lint

  Fun, Real, Book

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• Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles and the kinkiest fans!

  Christopher Moore

  Book, Titles, Fans

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• Hope lies in what the book title says, finding love and community.

  Hazel Rochman

  Lying, Book, Community

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