This Is A Book Quotes

When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.

Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'

I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.

Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.

I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it.

The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.

Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic.

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days.

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.

I always want to write something better than the last book.

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.

I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.

I'm also very hopeful to continue my literary journey into the realm of children's books. To be able to read my kids a children's book that was inspired by them would be everything!

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

I'm not a character in any of my books.

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

I have tons of fans in Canada. I've sold hundreds of thousands of books there.

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home

There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.