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Wednesday 21st of January 2026

Amazon.com Perhaps stealing a page from Amazon, which often promotes policies that would benefit it by talking about what customers want, the groups said their concerns were more about freedom of expression and a healthy culture than about themselves. New York Times, July 14, 2015, on complaints filed with the Dept. of Justice by the American Booksellers Association, the Association of Authors' Representatives, the Authors Guild and Authors United about how Amazon has damaged authors, readers, the publishing industry, and the free flow of information in the country © 2015 Kwiple.com
Books After having written many best selling books, and somewhat priding myself on my ability to write, it should be noted that the Fake News constantly likes to pour over my tweets looking for a mistake. Donald Trump, 5:19 PM – 3 Jul 2018 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Books An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. Benjamin Disraeli © 2021 Kwiple.com
Books The Art of the Deal   must be considered the founding document of the Celebration stage of the Age of Ignorance. Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Books Book publishers exist to make newspaper publishers look generous. Robert Armstrong, Financial Times, December 23, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Books Books will never completely vanish, just as horses are still around, in equestrian clubs, where they are objects of aesthetic worshop and enjoy a level of care whose technical precision verges upon a science. Maël Renouard, Fragments of an Infinite Memory © 2023 Kwiple.com
Books  Books work when no one else is looking, mind-melding author and audience, forging an imagined world that that only the reader can see. Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message © 2024 Kwiple.com
Books From 2007 to 2017 American authors’ median income dropped by more than half to $6,080. That’s in the world’s biggest book market, includes earnings from sidelines such as speaking, and excludes the one in four published writers whose total book income in 2017 was $0. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, September 9, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Books How to Get Rich. That's what I decided to call it, because, whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a baker how he makes bread. You ask a billionare how to make money. … Billionaire authors are harder to find. Donald Trump, Trump: How to Get Rich © 2016 Kwiple.com
Books I hear it's a terrific book. One of these days I'm going to read it myself. Ronald Reagan, commenting on An American Life,  his “autobiography” written by two dozen people © 2019 Kwiple.com
Books If a book is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed. Edward Gorey © 2018 Kwiple.com
Books If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck them. John Waters © 2021 Kwiple.com
Books A: “Imagine Donald Trump's library.” B: “You'd have to.” Dick Cavett, 5:31 PM - 5 May 2017 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Books It should be used to keep tables from wobbling. That is the only use for that book. John McWhorter, on Robin DiAngelo's bestseller, White Fragility © 2021 Kwiple.com
Books It's true: the point of writing a book no one will ever read is getting paid for giving speeches no one will ever listen to. Robert Armstrong, Financial Times, December 23, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Books Most titles nowadays are chosen for search engine optimisation. If War and Peace  appeared today, someone at the publishers might insist on renaming it Dating Hot Russian Women. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, September 9, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Books One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.  George W. Bush © 2023 Kwiple.com
Books Owning a book for its beauty is one thing, but owning a book for the information it holds? Why would you? Not when Google has promised to "organize the world's information"  for the price of your advertiing preferences. Gavin Francis, New York Review of Books, September 23, 2021 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Books The proper study of mankind is books. Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow © 2023 Kwiple.com
Books So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! Abraham Lincoln, on meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin © 2021 Kwiple.com
Books [S]tudies have shown that because memory is spatial, with readers recalling where information is located in a book, we retain less information when reading on-screen. Financial Times, April 13, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Books There is no need to ban books if people are not reading them. Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Books This book belongs to the Rev. Reid Byers, Who still hopes to read it Before he expires. Inscription inscribed in books owned by a Presbyterian minister and historian quoted in New York Times, December 24, 2021  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Books Until recently, to understand America's political system, citizens could read classics like Democracy in America, The American Political Tradition, and Profiles in Courage. Then Donald J. Trump was elected president. Now Americans are reading On Tyranny, How Democarcies Die, and the Mueller report. Daniel W. Drezner, The Toddler in Chief © 2020 Kwiple.com
Books We don't read  books. We mean  to read books. Fran Lebowitz, “Success Without College” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Books What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Books What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle © 2018 Kwiple.com
Books Wherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, will be burned. Heinrich Heine © 2021 Kwiple.com
By the numbers As of January 2016, the average college student would need to work nearly 28 hours at a minimum wage job to pay for just one $200 textbook. Books can account for 40 percent of academic costs at community colleges. American Scientist, November-December 2016, citing Covering the Cost, a report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of the ten Amazon best-selling books in the United States last year that were coloring books for adults: 3 Harper's Index, June 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of years by which an average U.S. book reader outlives a nonreader: 2 Harper's Index, November 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Christmas Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book. Jean Harlow © 2015 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say No one reads the Bible more than me. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Take me to your reader © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the old-fashioned way Indexing books © 2016 Kwiple.com
Math Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve its sales. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time © 2022 Kwiple.com
Progress What progres we are making. In the Middle Ages, they would have burnt me; nowadays they are content with burning my books. Sigmund Freud © 2022 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Bob Mueller brought a book to a Twitter fight. Ari Melber, May 30, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say If I were wrong, one would have been enough. Albert Einstein, responding to learning that a book,  100 Authors against Einstein, had been published in Germany © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie I was called “intellectual,” I guess, because I didn't know any better than to read the guests' books. Dick Cavett © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie My alma mater was books, a good library. … I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X, in Autobiography of Malcolm X  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie I like [reading] as little as possible. I don't need, you know, 200-page reports on something that can be handled on a page. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I never read Mein Kampf. Donald Trump  [He listened to the audio book or he channels Adolf Hitler] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am a proud non-reader of books. Kanye West © 2016 Kwiple.com
Size counts The covers of this book are too far apart. attributed to Ambrose Bierce © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say You really only need one book © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Palin was nothing if not prolific,  the Charles Dickens of the Age of Ignorance. Sarah Palin portrayed by Andy Borowitz in Profiles in Ignorance © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's written a lot of books about business. They all seem to end at Chapter 11. Donald Trump portrayed by Hillary Clinton © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Illiteracy isn't Trump's shame. It's his bond with us, a sub-literate president for a sub-literate country. Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I can say, with great confidence, that Donald Trump has not read a book other than those written for him in his adult life. Donald Trump portrayed by Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of Trump: The Art of the Deal, which Trump calls his second favorite book of all time, after the Bible © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest I don't get to read it that often because I tell them,“Go pick the books you want to read” and I read it to them. But since tonight, girls, you aren't here, you don't get to pick the book, so I get to pick Green Eggs and Ham. Ted Cruz, taking time out during his filibuster of the Affordable Care Act to read his daughters a bedtime story © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Wretched excess Apple publishes a coffee-table book, Designed by Apple in California, in two sizes: Wretched Excess, for $199 Truly Appalling, for $299 © 2016 Kwiple.com