Hardcover Books Quotes

#1. When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.

Sherman Alexie

#2. You could have sex relatively comfortably on a platform of books, but not on a platform of PDA.s. Hardcover books. Paperbacks might start sliding around. Though I.d still prefer paperbacks to a pile of PDA.s.

William Gibson

#3. Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

Jeffery Deaver

#4. Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.

David Sedaris

#5. I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

James Nesbitt

#6. Spend 80 percent of your time on books and 20 percent on articles and newspapers. And by books, I don't mean just any book. I mean hardcovers. A paperback is made to be read. A hardcover is made to be studied. There's a huge difference.

Tim Sanders

#7. My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

Lisa See

#8. If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.

Jane Goodall

#9. Byron clapped Walter on the back. 'Good work,' he said.
Walter shook his head. 'You're the one who clocked her with the Stephen King hardcover. That took some of the wind out of her.'
'Thank heavens he's a wordy man,' said Byron.

Michael Thomas Ford

#10. I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene.

Claes Oldenburg

#11. Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.

Christina Baker Kline

#12. I'm floating between multiple media. I really wish you could buy the hardcover book and it would come with the digital download and audible version. I spend stupid amounts of money because I'm usually buying my books in at least two formats.

Atul Gawande

#13. He ran his finger down the hardcover keyboard of book spines. Individual memories of each, particularly his first experience with every title, burned through him

Mike Robinson

#14. Do not be afraid of living without family- be afraid of living an empty and meaningless life

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Ignorance is ignorance, not a licence to believe what we like.

Bryan Magee

#16. Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.

Jyoti Arora

#17. I had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

Walter Isaacson

#18. Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.

Deepak Chopra

#19. I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morning / To drift and dream like a lazy stream / And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

James Kavanaugh

#20. And then he did move, because my hardcover copy of Breaking Dawn whacked him full in the face, with all my vampiric strength propelling it.

Helen Keeble

#21. The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book
it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

#22. That's a good hustle," I told him.
"We both got a little hustle, don't we?" He pulled on his jacket. "But I like to think we got more heart.

Ruta Sepetys

#23. I never have celebrity crushes.

Samantha Barks

#24. I would not be able to define my star power as I do not know what that is.

Katrina Kaif

#25. I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away.

Deborah Meyler