This Is A Book Quotes

The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.

I think books can give rise to empowerment.

Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

I would always want printed books.

"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit was tossed.

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Because each book has its own special perfume.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

I have read your book, and I disapprove.

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.

I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books.

Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

I think goodreads is the best place to look for books

Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I started shooting, how I became a photographer.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all create the ability for social media to work and all build reputation and ranking.

Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.

The fear factor was my greatest challenge with The Whispering Town. How could I portray danger without really frightening the youngest readers and without diluting the story?

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things".

Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

Giving back or giving forward is the one true law of marketing.

All of marketing consists in creating relationships. Real relationships: friends, lovers, partners, warriors, fans.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.