This Is A Book Quotes

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel.

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative book.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

All books are merely delayed dust.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

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.

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

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

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.'

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