This Is A Book Quotes

I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business.

Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it is a difference in people's lives.

The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

The proper study of mankind is books.

My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

I am the most interesting book of all.

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young!

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.