This Is A Book Quotes

She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?

Books fall open, you fall in.

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written.

Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience.

I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

I sometimes read books on my iPad.

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.

One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God's sake, I've done six now!" "Oceans of Sound".

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.

Books are packaged dreams.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.

You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.

Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story that will be read for years to come.

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.

I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.

When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.