This Is A Book Quotes
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly
You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.
The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny!
I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.
The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.
If you go to Germany and get drunk, at some point you will try to look up Hitler in the phone book.
I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases I do know the answers, but in many others I don't know and don't want to know.
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.
Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.
I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.
My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you?
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.
When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.
Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.
I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.
But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.
I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.”
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
Jacki Smith is a masterful artist of magickal candles. I've enjoyed her blend of strong magickal intentions and great smelling scents in her products. To have her wisdom in a book is a treasure!
I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.
I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that's what I write about.
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.
