This Is A Book Quotes

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.

I can't not put humor in a book.

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

...she made her home in between the pages of books.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working at the Maccabi Games.

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.

I want to write a best-selling book.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.

I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.

I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.