From Book Quotes
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives.
Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.
Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this would have to be it.
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.
Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.
Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.
The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.
I was, after all, the daughter of a man who believed that to be involved with books was to live at the heart of light, and the former wife of a man who shared his faith.
I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.
One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.
I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.
It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. I have nothing now but praise for my life.
I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.
I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.
Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever.
Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!
One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
