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“God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think.”

Thinking Should Book Might Suffering Written Gains My Family Shame Worthy Publishing

Book:An Instance of the Fingerpost

Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost

“McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.”

People Book Reading Media Stupid Television Broken Becoming Shame Watching Television

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, they never grumble; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you.”

Ifs Humans Book Hard Mistake Laughing Ignorance Masters Approach Clothes Shame Doctrine Ignorant Instruction Commodity Investigating Hard Words

Book:Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books

Source: Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books

“. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!”

Has Beens Book Different School Lost Pieces Subjects Sight Shame Slavery Trade Slave Burning Knives Slave Trade Pruning

Author:Robert Purvis

“What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from your grave; when the eyes of God shall burn their way into your guilty soul; when the great books shall be opened and all your sin and shame shall be punished... can you stand against an angry Law in that Day?”

Way Book Soul Eye Law Sin Tears Shame Angry Terror Graves Guilty Trumpets Great Book Archangel

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426

“FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation in Bosnia, about guilt and shame, about victims and perpetrators, about reasons, arguments and beliefs that led to the conflict in the first place, etc. All of this needed and still needs answering and ongoing discussions, but I mostly felt overwhelmed and unqualified to articulate anything worth more than personal experiences of the siege, of fear and refuge - all the things which I wrote about anyway.”

“Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?”

Ifs Thinking World Way Book Different Used Existence Responsibility Moral Audience Reader Picks Shame Different Ways Realms Lazy Moral Responsibility

Author:Kevin Keck

“When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But my story is a little unique in that I realized when I was 14 years old that I was different. I think a lot of gay people use drugs and alcohol to quell that fear and shame - especially people of my age.”

People Thinking Way Want Writing Years Littles Book Different Stories Use Age Actors Lost Gay Drug Unique Shame Alcohol I Realized Gay People Drugs And Alcohol

Author:Leslie Jordan

“I think what happens is that we're so busy as pastors that we never get around to trying to turn that material into a book. It's a shame because there is so much good material out there that needs to be published.”

Thinking Needs Trying Book Happens Turns Materials Shame Busy Pastor

Author:Max Lucado

“The sexual revolution... it was the first time I had read anything that came close to describing those feelings of being outside of my body, feeling the shame, all of it, that I really was able to connect to in that book. So it sort of blew my mind. I was also listening to Tori Amos at the same time, so I was like, "Wait, what's happening?!" It was all a part of that, probably when I was, like, 13.”

Mind Firsts Book Feelings Body Able Waiting Revolution Listening Happenings First Time Shame Describing Sexual Revolution

Author:June Diane Raphael

“One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was able to be humorous and then very serious. And the impeachment page is certainly the best example of that. I didn't have to think too much about how to present this one. I got the idea right away that a good way of showing the shame of President Nixon would be to put him down in the shadows under the Lincoln Monument, with Lincoln sort of glaring down at him from an elevated, better-lit position.”

Thinking Book President Serious Glory Humorous Shadow Shame Monument President Nixon

Author:David Small

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.”

Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.”

People Thinking Knows Said Book Dies Lost Interesting One Thing Shame Yeah Interesting Book What Did I Do Wrong

Author:David Mamet

“Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of the genre. Your book is hot. Thanks for letting me read it. Anyone who doesn't want to publish it is a fool. Anyway, since I know it's your birthday, and I also know you never remember to back anything up, here's a little something I made for you. It would be a shame if Ransom My Heart got lost before it ever saw the light of day because your hard drive crashed. See you tonight. Love, Michael”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Heart Littles Made Book Hard Light Would Be Remember Romance Lost Novel Saws Fool Kings My Heart Hot Shame Dear Thanks Genre Tonight Publish Romance Novel Mia Ransom

Author:Meg Cabot

“It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)”

“A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.”

Giving Kind Book Hands Kids Shame Superpower

Author:Cecil Castellucci

“Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.”

Knows Book Dies Names Lord Shame Stealing Owners

Book:LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle): The Alpine Path (Memoirs), Complete Chronicles of Avonlea, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Jane of Lantern Hill, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon and more

Source: LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle): The Alpine Path (Memoirs), Complete Chronicles of Avonlea, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Jane of Lantern Hill, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon and more

“We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.”

Ifs May Book Sometimes Reason Reality Beautiful Ought Bible Shame Terror Versions Burning Dumb Get Away Association Biblical Sigh Solemn Adoration Tranquil Veneration Lulls Solemnity

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.”

Children Book Self Feelings Age Wanted Felt Self Esteem Easier Shame Esteem Shed Children's Books

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.”

Book Artist Justice Worry Creation Shame Pot Aspire Clay Remakes Expressive Clay Pots

Author:Rachel Cusk

“Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.”

People Writing Book Real Fiction Hell Comedy Wonderful Modern Honest Shame Odd Nerves Capture Chicago Existential Bizarre Parades Nelson Funny As Hell

Author:Joe Meno

“Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.”

Believe Book Picks Shame

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.”

Ifs Want Book Philosophy Spiritual Science Lying Can Do Justice Morality Okay Opposites Shame Atheist Recognition Behave Preaching Cheat Agnostic Decency Mafia

Author:Dennis McKinsey

“It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant to be seen reading this year. It seems like those people aren’t really interested in books. If you’re really into books, you havoc all over the place picking up disparate stuff which you devour hungrily, and the ‘selection’ process is more like a sixth sense hunger, a billion miles away from fashion.”

People Ifs Years Book Seems Reading Stuff Process Fashion Waste Shame Hunger Billions Miles Newspapers Meant To Be Selection Supplements Miles Away Havoc Sixth Sense

Author:Steve Aylett

“You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.”

Book Ends Dark Novel Fire Written Shame Over You Realising Bubbles Cathedrals

Author:Michael Cunningham

“Jesus is the perfect name! He who put away his fame! And persecuted in shame! That you will never be the same! It's because of you and I He came! Believe him or have yourself to blame! In the book of life, have your name!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes