This Is A Book Quotes

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Good travel books are novels at heart.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.

Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

Let my temptation be a book.

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.