This Is A Book Quotes

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

All I've done is give you a book. You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it.

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

In the end all books are written for your friends.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!

My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.