This Is A Book Quotes

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

That was a kiss for the record books.

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.

The Soul of Money is an inspired and utterly fascinating book. It will change the way you think about money. ... It is a book for everyone who would like to make the world a better place.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

I make jewelry occasionally. I'm not a hobbyist. I'm a reader, I'm a lover of books, I like to watch movies, but mostly a lot of nothing. I'm quite content doing very little.

If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books.

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives.

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.

I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.

My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

My dream is that all South Africans from all walks of life will have the opportunity to read my books and use the information therein to successfully invest in property

My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he's getting calls from girls to see if I'm home!

I draw rainbows whenever I see them, with my black ink pen. When I have collected enough, I thought I might make a book called Black-and-White Rainbows.

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.

You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.

Every book should have a romance.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin wrote a book.

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.