This Is A Book Quotes

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.

You've read some of the poems in this new unpublished book [Walker's Alphabet], e.g., the poem "C." I have a number of poems whose titles are letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F.

i really like kingdom hearts its like the best book ever

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'

Have I got a black book? Yes, it's called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates - working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

Books can be terrible snobs.

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.

Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.

If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that.

If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that.

Too many people write books as a calling card.

Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.

Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.

What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.

I don't hire any companies or ask any of my friends to write reviews for me on Amazon when I have a book come out so they can drive up my ratings on Amazon. I don't have a publicist.

I never imagined I'd write a book.

When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace.

...there's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives.

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

past is like a histroy book were we can learn what weve done in it.

I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.

When I was a kid, all I liked were books and chocolate.

My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'

I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.

It's definitely scary to follow a book that's been turned into a Netflix series and found as much success as Girlboss did.

I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with you long after you finish.

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only because that's exactly what I have to play.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.

An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!

The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected.

In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away.

For the book unwritten is the book burned.