This Is A Book Quotes

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia. I think it's the thing we do best.

I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

I'm not thinking in any big thematic or conceptual terms - especially in this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] when I was trying to make the voices more active, more energetic.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.

"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is buring?

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.

There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.

An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

Be knowledgeable in your niche, provide some information free of charge, and share other trustworthy people's free resources whenever possible.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book.

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.

There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels we can remember the lower levels, but when on the lower we cannot remember the higher.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.