"There ought to be a book analyzing Canadian literature from a spiritual poverty angle."
—Alan Twigg, Strong Voices, 1988, p. 222.

"There ought to be a book on the Art of Clear Thinking."
—Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, 1998, p. 490.

"Somebody should write a book on the history of history."
—Kim Heacox, The Only Kayak, 2006, p. 162.

"There should be a book about a girl having a pirate adventure."
—Brad Strickland & Barbara Strickland, No-Rules Weekend, 2001, p. 37.

"Someone ought to write a book on how to cope with a bored genius child."
—Jane Jennings, Why Joy?, 1978, p. 49.

"Someone ought to write a book on England's Golden Ages."
—Maurice Eli Goldberg, 100,000 Years of Art, 1930, p. 254.

"There ought to be a book that tells the story of interesting companies that have disappeared from the economic landscape, and describes how they lived, how they died, and how they fit into the evolution of capitalism."
—Peter Lynch & John Rothchild, Learn to Earn, 1997, p. 190.

"Somebody should write a book about the race/class/gender meanings and practice of drug use."
—Peter Braunstein, Imagine Nation, 2001, p. 40.

"There needs to be a book that teaches students, simply, how to play the game, no matter what the idealogy of the school."
—Maxine Weiss, Aug. 30, 2007.

"Somebody should write a book on ... the evolution of evolution."
—Kim Heacox, The Only Kayak, 2006, p. 162.

"Some one ought to write a book on nationality as it affects the character and the fortunes of an author or artist."
—Eugene Szekeres Bagger, Eminent Europeans, 1922, p. 220.

"Somebody should write a book on bizarre cases of credit attribution!"
—Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas, 1985, p. 358.

...but they should say that it was written by Francis Bacon or Jimmy Hoffa.

"There ought to be a book written and put in the hands of every child, enjoining the kind treatment of animals."
—Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal and Western Lancet, 1859, p. 111

"There ought to be a book about eggs."
—Lorus Johnson Milne, A Multitude of Living Things, 1947, p. 108.

"Someone ought to write a book exploring the political alibis men and states have given for their awful actions."
—Arnold Wesker, Said the Old Man to the Young Man, 1978, p. 181.

"Why make a book? Why bother? . . .

"Making a book creates a midnight in which synaptic lightning illuminates our skull’s planetarium. It lets us peek into how we think we might work. . . .

"A book is a delivery system for a hallucinogen you ingest though the eyes and digest in the mind. A book allows one imagination to taste the inside of another.”

—David Barringer, There’s Nothing Funny about Design, 2009.

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"Somebody should write a book on 'Debunking the Debunkers,' somebody, that is, aside from the Freudians."
—Ralph Tyler Flewelling, The Personalist, 1947, p. 435.

"There needs to be a book on native Oklahoma pests."
—"Bugs and Other Scary Things in Oklahoma," June 30, 2007.

"Someone ought to write a book.  Global Frontiers: The New Wild West?"
—Irl Davis, The American Entrepreneur in Asia, 2005, p. 6.

"There should be a book on the divided American left and that it should be titled either The Joy of Sects or Let Dogma Eat Dogma."
—J. David Gillespie, Politics at the Periphery, 1993, p. 179.