This Is A Book Quotes

Like books, artists have their fates.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.

Culture is worth a little risk.

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.

Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.

You can't expect someone who has been in prison his whole entire life to turn around and become a sweet guy who writes books and walks his dog and has a normal life.

And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.

I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

Why do all your friends talk like books?

For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear focus.

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book.

There are always challenges with books , deciding what to include and what to omit.

Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.

Anything that propels me to create, like [my book, Straight Walk]. It kept me inspired for almost four years.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.

Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.

We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.

I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.

I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.