From Book Quotes
It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.
What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.
Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.
There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.
There is no reason why good books should be lowered or lessened being rewritten to meet the demands of people who are not ready or interested enough to make the effort to read.
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.
No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending, I want more story.
Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters.
I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages
University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.
When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.
I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.
There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.
Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own.
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
If I ever write a book on "How True Is the Bible?" I'll have to start out by saying that archaeology is not the way to find out; that it has very little to say.
I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.
Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.
After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.
I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to.
A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.
Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.
Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.
Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.
Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.
I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.
Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.
I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.