This Is A Book Quotes

When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

I'm obsessed with books.

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.

I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven't heard of some of them.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies.

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick up a book.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

My fan fiction is canon.

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book? FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.

From the Book of Mormon we learn how disciples of Christ live in times of war.

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.

the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.