This Is A Book Quotes

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.

In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.

I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.

There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven

If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.

Osho's books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind.

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

No trilogy should have more than four books.

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.

I like to play football, read some books, study.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that.

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it.

As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.