This Is A Book Quotes

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago I read four or five books of his and it helped me.

I think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ.

Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I'm done with this book, I'll move on to something else.

Not every book is for every reader.

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

Author Brene Brown - her books inspire me to "dare greatly".

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

I love what I call "re-imagining," where I throw everything up in the air and let it fall in a different way. It's not the most efficient way to write a book, but it's how I find the story.

Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books.

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

God is religion; religion is God! There is no need ever for holy books, for holy rules or for so called holy envoys! God is religion; religion is God!

I hope one day God will reveal all the truths to people that He has never sent any Holy Book, nor did He create anything but chaos!

No eyes can read the future, because it is a book not yet written!

When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!

We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made; all the dreams we dreamed! We are... We are all of them!

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

Don't judge my brother; he is not a book.

Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.

A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

The number of vacations me and my husband have canceled... if you really want a job, book a non-refundable vacation. But obviously we're blessed too.

A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.

You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter." "Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm waiting for the movie," Puck said.

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

I spent my life in the library reading books.

I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.