This Is A Book Quotes

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.

I like stories about people. I like things that are human and different. I want to be as engaged in my work as I am in reading a book. I want to be electrified by the films I do.

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow." He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A grin snakes across his face. "I like my women feisty." He adds, "I like my broken.

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

I read books more than I go out.

Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.

Overall, Id say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.

What to do Before Your Book Launch is the new invaluable tool for writers. There is so much to know and now it’s all in one place.

Boredom is why God invented books.

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.

I love “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” That was like the only black book we read in high school...

Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

You need help, and that's what books are for.

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls.

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.

I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!

I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.

I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.

My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book. Well, your book is just wrong.