This Is A Book Quotes

The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.

The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

A dedication is a wooden leg.

Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd much rather have relatives than a book.

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.

No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.

Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

I was never without a book in my hand.

We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.

I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!

You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.

Books are men of higher stature.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Of writing many books there is no end.

Books succeed; and lives fail.

books are like confort food without the calories

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

I love the book legacy of lies it amazing and is fun to read over and over again

I love the writers in Austin. We stick together. We all like each other and go to each other's book signings in case no one else shows up.

I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.

As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.

I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.