Top 24 Book Jackets Quotes
#1. ...American book jackets reflect the spirit of country - little homogeneity, lots of diversity.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#2. Yet I have come to distrust book jackets calculated to prick desire like a Bloomingdale's window, as if you could wear what you read.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#3. Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possibly be as dramatic as my life to date. Then sadly, I also realized I could never find the ending of my story from the safety of an armchair.
Sarah Kay
#4. I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
Antonia Fraser
#5. In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man's life through not one, but one hundred different books - and book jackets ... An unmistakably modern evocation of the illuminated manuscript.
Jessica Helfand
#6. Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.
Hilary Mantel
#7. A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses
A. J. Jacobs
#8. My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.
Debasish Mridha
#10. Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
Marcus Annaeus Lucan
#11. One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand.
Edward Augustus Bowles
#13. I love book books, real books, books with spines and heart, dust jackets, books that smell of books. Take the frame from a painting and you have a painting, not art. Take the pages from a book and print them on a screen and you have the ghost of a book. Not a book.
Chloe Thurlow
#14. But jackets are the redheaded stepchildren of book publishing. We blame them for everything.
Gabrielle Zevin
#15. Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.
Trofim Lysenko
#17. Sometimes in a restaurant you'll see a lady dressed very nice, she picks up a menu or something ... a little fan is always a little bit nice.
Tina Turner
#18. The 'difference' = What you say you'll do - what you actually do
George Akomas Jr
#19. I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own.
Chip Kidd
#20. you know: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF HUGS IS THE ENTIRE REASON I EVER ENGAGE IN ANY NARRATIVE, FICTIONAL OR OTHERWISE??
Ryan North
#21. Life really could be an enjoyable experience, if we only knew what it demands of us.
Sunday Adelaja
#22. Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.
Karen Barber
#23. it is not clear that the government needed dragnets to catch Zazi. If Zazi was e-mailing with terrorists under surveillance, a search warrant would have sufficed to capture his communications. Similarly,
Julia Angwin
#24. We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.
Eugene McCarthy
