This Is A Book Quotes

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

There is at least one more atheism left; it is by its very nature a belligerent form that wants to spread far and wide by propagating itself though books, TV, and other media.

I think everybody's book is about somebody's daughter, in a lot of ways. I dig that.

I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.

I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.

An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

BBC had tried to develop the book, set in England, as a two-hour movie. I went to a meeting and they said, "Look at this," and I thought the book was outstanding. I was like, "Can I do this?"

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

I have represented people in book deals.

If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.

I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

Most books are bought by women.

I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one.

I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.

At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

I don't reread my books.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!

The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.

I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.

I always tell people it's funny that they think I'm a relationship expert because my two books are about getting out of relationships.

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

The Koran and Islam is about submission, justice and compassion. All people of the "book" - which means the Torah, Koran and Bible are accorded equal respect under Islam.

I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked in comic books. So, I wasn't too proud to work in something like cartoons.

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.