Hardcovers Quotes

#1. The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Stephen Vizinczey

#2. In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. The books are all brand-new hardcovers - no germy secondhand softcovers for me. They come to me from Outside, decontaminated and vacuum-sealed in plastic wrap. I

Nicola Yoon

#3. We all struggle. Life is not fun. A lot of times, it's really painful and hard. Sometimes it's really funny. 'Foxcatcher' is kind of like a metaphor for that.

Mark Schultz

#4. Thank God for old-fashioned hardcovers. The e-book reader she had at home wouldn't have packed nearly the same punch.

Christine Warren

#5. The Collier Street clouds lowered, and How soon is now? resigned itself to B-side status.

Morrissey

#6. In fact, if I let Him, my faith, rather than my mouth, could become my best asset.

Tamara Leigh

#7. It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably do exactly that. Just take a step to one side. Dissolve into a north-westerly wind as it whirled around the lighthouse at North Point, then out across the sea.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#8. I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

Sharon Stone

#9. In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback.

Christina Baker Kline

#10. Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.

Christina Baker Kline

#11. Sing, Muse, of high, moulded ceilings and built-in bookcases chockablock with hardcovers!

Garth Risk Hallberg

#12. Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

Mark Millar

#13. Are you saying that you need an attorney? For what? As far as I know, being a dick isn't against the law in any country.

Elle Lothlorien

#14. Good paperbacks are among the most valuable weapons of any society. Good hardcovers doubly so.

Matthew Keefer

#15. It is easy to die for what you believe. What is hard is to live for what you believe.

Thomas Bethell

#16. 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

#17. People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.

Earl Sweatshirt

#18. It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Soren Kierkegaard

#19. Please don't spoil my day; I'm miles away and, after all, I'm only sleeping.

John Lennon

#20. I believe we are slowly turning into a socialist government. The government is continually growing bigger and more powerful and the people need to prepare to defend themselves against government control.

Timothy McVeigh

#21. I used to do skits for my mom ... and I was always entertaining as a kid.

Leah Remini

#22. Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

Bayard Taylor