This Is A Book Quotes

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility.

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Life is not meant to be an open-book test.

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.

Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.

I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.

I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.

If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

I love depressing movies and depressing books.

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. But I've never read a book on what a shape is.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.