This Is A Book Quotes

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.

Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.

We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

I'm not a comic book guy at all.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod.

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.

Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.