Books And Reading Quotations | Page 2

She's very young. Already, she's becoming famous for the number of books she's written. Her latest book got starred reviews in the journals, so people are beginning to know her.

It integrates everything that is important to them: games, friends, sports, e-mail, music, books, movies and, when they have time, homework,

It includes 200 recipes all in one book and saves having to cut recipes from magazines and storing them somehow.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

I think the newspaper headline might have over-exaggerated the comments in the book,

I think the image I had in my head from the book -- they've captured it.

On the Road' is a seminal book that gave voice to a whole generation -- capturing its hunger for experience, unwillingness to accept imposed truths and dissatisfaction with the status quo. It is as modern today as it was four decades ago.

When I first started writing the column and then the book came out, there were so many women who would come up to me and say: This is me. This is about my life, you know, and nobody has done it before. And I think that that's what they've done really successfully with the TV series, is they made women feel like it's about their lives.

When I first envisioned this book back in 2002, I had no idea it would become the massive project it has become. It has been so long since local residents had the chance to participate by sending in family histories.