This Is A Book Quotes

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.

When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.

I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.

There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.

I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things, as well. I like things that have a twist - like 'Atonement,' which I haven't read obviously, as I'm a bit young.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination

Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.