This Is A Book Quotes

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

When it comes to books...They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis.

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it's fate are people.

This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo

There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it.

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

I've been around so long that I might be in record books for being the longest, weirdest, most pathetic great player ever. Look t how precocious I am at 33.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.

Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.

I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast).

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.

Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.

When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.