This Is A Book Quotes

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book.

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

but I felt as if I’d just been Photoshopped out of my own book cover. And if there was one thing I wasn’t used to, it was being ignored

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.

I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

"The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway.

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

The stitch of a book is its words.

I can't exist without books.

There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.

Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

A number of things in Dhalgren are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends.

I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things, as well.

A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

A print book is really a kind of tree zombie.

The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations.

You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.

We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end loads of polish people turn up.