This Is A Book Quotes

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.

If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don't memorize numbers anymore.

The Bible is God's great lesson book.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited menu of sports and a discount coupon book of clichés.

I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.

You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

Love is only found in books

Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.

I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know a word of Arabic to write a book like the one I wrote.

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.

Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

I really try to focus on my books and readers.

I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.

No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.

I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.

Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic but to find a cinematic equivalent.

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

I read three books a week.

For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.

I've never read a script that I've loved equally and differently to the book.

People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those? Nobody likes those.

It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.

What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.

I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun.

Before my sister, Sara, and I went to bed at night, my mom would show us books on Manet and other artists. Even then I was always really interested in how the women looked in the images.

I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln.

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how to adapt my craft, which was actually very helpful.

For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.