This Is A Book Quotes

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.

It's never too late to begin a life or a book.

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.

The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

There are already current laws on the books and there are - and jurisdictions. The IRS can come in and do any kind of investigation of a person.

In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.

I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

Each book starts from ashes.

I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

I don't go by the rule book

You must wanna be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the dumbest.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.