This Is A Book Quotes

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the UK ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the UK. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

If youre a sugar addict like most people, you need to read Beyond Sugar Shock. This compassionate, comforting, uplifting book will change your life.

I optioned a book called "Rare Objects" by Kathleen Tessaro and I'm adapting it . It takes place in the 1930s and it's about two women and that's what I'm working on to direct.

I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!

I'm scared. I'm excited. I'm ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and become this story, this book for anyone to read.

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

When you say to somebody, "I'd like to recommend a book to you," you're typically talking to a person who is willing to learn, grow, or change.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.

With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing.

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

I would just love to create a bunch of patents, I have a book of 50 right now.

To be completely honest, I didn't know 'Twilight' was a book.

I love to read. I have a Kindle, and it's nice to be able to download books that people refer.

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message.

My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to dip in and out of, to hold, to have on your shelf.

Silver-the first book of dreams

Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.

Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room with literature and poetry, where I work most often - and feel overwhelmed.

I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.