This Is A Book Quotes

Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."

Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

Books are my one luxury. I have a lot of large coffee-table-size art books, in the shelves above my bed, about people like Warhol, Basquiat and Velasquez.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?

I am no fan of books.

Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo!

You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut.

Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.

When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.

In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures.

I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years.

[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were incredibly expensive.

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

I can write a book in probably three months.

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

You have to go where the book leads you.

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.

As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears.

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.

My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to.

By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.

Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.