This Is A Book Quotes

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which I read recently. I want to forget I have a book in my hand.

I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

The guides from the book of Joshua will combine to provide the most powerful source of courage and strength there is: faith in our Heavenly Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went

It's my hope that as you dip your toe into the Bible's story and viewpoint, you'll find yourself feeling that the Good Book knows more about the world - and about you - than any normal book does.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.

A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

Books are important. They help you sleep at night.

Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.