This Is A Book Quotes

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!

Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book

I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.

The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?

I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.

I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi .

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

Detailed analytical indexing is generally the hallmark of good back-of-the-book indexes.

I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.

Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.

If I had, say, a tall, amateur male lead living on the campus of a rural college (Six Years), the next book might feature a short, cop who lives in the heart of Manhattan (Missing You).

Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.

Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake.

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it.

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.