This Is A Book Quotes

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim.

The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

You will attract everything that you require. If it's money you need... you'll attract it. If it's people you need... you'll attract it. If it's a certain book you need... you'll attract it.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

I don't understand "The Little World of the Past" [a reference to the title of the book by Antonio Fogazzaro] that is destined to die.

BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book.

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.