This Is A Book Quotes

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, The Things They Carried, has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

I buy thousands of books a year.

I have to live my books before I write them.

The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

Have your name put in the Lamb's Book of Life in Heaven so you'll be sure you've got your reservation confirmed for one of those mansions in God's golden Space City!

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we have with people, to a lesser or greater degree.

There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about how it takes three or four years to get it right.

I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move, and by the time I was 12, they really accepted me, they embraced me.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books

It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.

I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

I reread "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton, the father of all sports books. Aside from that, and books like "Out of Their League" by Dave Meggyesy, sports books generally pull their punches.

For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.

The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books.

Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.

The point of books is to combat loneliness.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.

For those of you haven't read the book, it's being published tomorrow

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.

We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the most beautiful things we have.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.

The Pope also said that while he's in town he would like to go see 'The Book of Mormon.'

Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you.

Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted advance on a history book?'

I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are out in the open.