This Is A Book Quotes

All these books are published in Heaven.

The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.

It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals.

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

The more he gave away, the more delighted he became.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

I love to get books, because I love to read.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.