This Is A Book Quotes

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

Books were safer than other people anyway.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Experience is the best teacher.

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

Age is artificial. It's soulless. It doesn't matter one bit.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled.

Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

All these books are published in Heaven.

For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"