This Is A Book Quotes

My mistake was in ever opening the books.

I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.

Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.

I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them.

For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt pens and yellow legal pads are a must. And my eyebrow pencil. I'm very low-maintenance.

I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on.

My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I pick my pen up and I cannot put my pen down.

I read the book [ 'Middle School' ]! There was nothing specific really, I think everything in the film was great!

Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.

A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to know it's there. You only get to be number one when the public knows about you.

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.

If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.

Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound.

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

I don't want to recover from writing this book [The Onion]. I feel very poised. I feel like I'm with my mother for the first time ever. I feel like I've confronted her, and the confrontation goes on.

Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I know him only casually, but I like him a lot. I think he likes my books.

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

I like to have fun out there. I work hard, and then I get to cut loose and go out and tour, and I enjoy it. I like to go out and meet the people. I love to sell books.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to make the movies in the next year, or two, or three.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.