Sentence examples for owe a book from inspiring English sources

"But now I owe a book to nobody.

"Before writing Harvest I was writing a novel that failed at 40,000 words, and I had to abandon it … If you owe a book and you've been paid for it and it's not going well, you have really put yourself into a difficult place.

"Paper Man," opening April 23 and written and directed by Michele and Kieran Mulroney, stars Jeff Daniels as Richard Dunn, a literary novelist of no particular distinction whose first book has been a colossal failure and who owes a new book to his publisher.

He added, "I owe him a book, which I keep meaning to drop off".

"You don't owe me a book report," she told the women.

For the first time in 20 years, he said, he does not owe a publisher a new book.

Their assessment of the Republican Party's strengths echoes observations made by Thomas B. Edsall in his recent book "Building Red America," and their chapters on the rise of the new media and the Bush White House's willful efforts to undermine the mainstream press owe a decided debt to books and articles by writers like Frank Rich, Ken Auletta, Craig Crawford and Eric Boehlert.

The Oscar nominees for best picture owe a huge debt to books -- and the creativity of authors.

Both books owe a debt to Ralph Ellison's 1952 classic, Invisible Man, in that they depict protagonists struggling to reconcile their self-perception with the false images society projects on to them.

Brian Warner, emeritus professor of astronomy, University of Cape Town, writes: There are many individuals in successive generations of professional astronomers who owe a great deal to the books and personal support of Patrick Moore.

"I felt I owed her a book of her own".