This Is A Book Quotes

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hott, but then again, I am a mammal.

The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

Remember, a book is always a gift.

Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

The comic book world is a tough business.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.

[There is] a great book from Ravi Zacharis, a scholar from India, and its called Jesus Among Other Gods. I havent read that one, but I know Ravi really well, and I know its a good book.

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

If you want to be changed, read a good book.

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.