This Is A Book Quotes

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on a project, I'd probably abandon the first project and go with the new idea.

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.

I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.

There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody would want to read a book about anyway.

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.

I was not scared of anything, when I read my book.

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.

I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf - 'cause I'd alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there.

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

American Gods was designed to be if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.

I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.

People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.

In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.

Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.