This Is A Book Quotes

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.

I had read some books on the Baha'i Faith. I had read - I was looking into Buddhism and trying to understand sort of the agnostic approach, so there was just a bunch of stuff I was just looking at.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.

[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.

Easy to read, yet filled with wisdom that will penetrate your heart, this book puts the power back in your hands. It’s a must have.

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where decisions made in the first impact the last.

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your husband is trying to kill you'?

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'

For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone.

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division.

Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.

We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary.

I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.

My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I think is a lovely thing. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.