This Is A Book Quotes

I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then I suddenly realized I did.

There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form.

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.

Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion.

I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby -- there isn't any comparison.

What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books.

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull.

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

I have read some great books recently: "Heaven is For Real," "Bud Not Buddy," and my favorite, "Tiger Eyes."

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

Even in Kitty Kelley's book, which is so negative, they talk about, as with all first ladies, that Nancy Reagan is constantly around to take photo ops with kids.

i really like reading books

Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

Books are my weakness.

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book.

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.

But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth- of the books I'd probably love if I ever got to them.

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.