Famous quotes containing the words story and/or book:
“Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mail-bag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)