This Is A Book Quotes

There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could be part of a bigger one.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

Signori has all the tricks up his book.

If you liked a book, don't meet the author

They write them long because they can't write them short.

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.

My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

I've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read any more books where the girl dies in the end.

I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.

As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

Books are solitudes in which we meet.

I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

I love a book that makes me ask questions about what I think or how I see the world or how I feel, so I hope that 'Goodbye, Stranger' is that kind of book for some people.

When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.

Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five stars, because stars make people - including me -- happy.

Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

I feel lucky to love what I do. It doesn't feel like working. I do all the projects I do because I like doing them, whether it's a book or a photo shoot. For me, my work and my life are the same.

One can never have too many books.

I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.

The first book was out and for the first time we were on a book tour. Being the son of an immigrant, I'd never dreamt of being on book tours. Suddenly the attention was huge.

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.