This Is A Book Quotes

The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred by Guy Finley is a very wise book, filled with inspiration to help you dramatically improve your life. I highly recommend it.

There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called "Sketch Book"; his name is Vardan Ovsepian.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

Good readers make much out of little.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

Well - when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures - all these little stars That shake out of my cloak - I must save those To use for asterisks.

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer.

The angels can sometimes come as wordless words as feeling, and as repetitive signs, like getting recommended the same book over and over and over again...

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.