This Is A Book Quotes

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are much more convincing.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

When its comes to music and books 'OK' is not good enough. We need creative work that floors us! That we can't believe the beauty and brains and style and cool of. 'OK' can kiss my arse.

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.

Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to be discovered

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

No one could be still like Edward.

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.

Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.