This Is A Book Quotes

The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.

As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you have to let go of the book.

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

I choose Hosea. Oh, there's no book of the Bible which more beautifully and more painfully demonstrates how very much God loves us.

As I reread each book of the Bible, I fell in love all over again - not just with God's Word, but with God himself.

The really beautiful thing about each book of the Bible is that you can find God's love through each chapter because God is the author and God is love.

I love his Word and I hope when readers discover how God communicates his love for them through each book of the Bible, they'll fall deeper in love with his Word too.

My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'

I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But after my third or fourth book it got too time-consuming.

I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to tell a different story.

I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!

If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.

When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters.

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open.

We had tried to get a couple books that were written about Ray Kroc, and one of the books, we called the publisher. The publisher actually said, "Call McDonald."

Man, Books & Booze is cool, right?. That's the most fun I've had in an interview this year. Definitely the most singing I've done.

What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

We hope that audiences around the world embrace the picture in the same way they have the books and that hopefully Disney will allow us make another one.

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.