This Is A Book Quotes

Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies.

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.

When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual

I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.

I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already lost their faith, and something about my books encouraged them to affirm that.

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true.

When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.

I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

People are like books, unknown until they are opened.

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

Too bad you got so bogged down in books. You've got the spirit of a warrior.

Seth's quote from his book: "And if I only could I'd make a deal with God and I'd get Him to swap our places" -"Running up that Hill" by Kate Bush

Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.

One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

You make learning fun. Like a children’s book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there.

I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book.

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-

The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.

Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.

Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.

The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read

There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

I'm already in the (record) books three or four times.

I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.