This Is A Book Quotes

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

Make use of all free time at the office and elsewhere for chanting your mantra or reading spiritual books. Avoid indulging in unnecessary gossip and try to talk about spiritual subjects with others.

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names to characters in their novels. False modesty, faugh!

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

I want to read a lot of books and not live lazily. I want to become intellectual.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.

Any man who reaches for a book when he thinks about you is a man that you should think about.

New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.

...She Let Him Just Sit There and Be Happy.

Disparage no book, for it is also a part of the world.

The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.

Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

I was a little stunned that we didn't get a coloring book with this menu.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

Men are just like a book - with a beginning, middle and an end.

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.

Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write.