This Is A Book Quotes

They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can’t remember anything.

I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

Few books today are forgivable.

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive, for the writer.

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.

I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.

I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

Of all my books, I find only a few indispensible.

Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.