This Is A Book Quotes

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

I have a giant baking book, so I close my eyes and pick a random page. Whatever it is, I try to bake it!

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring.

It's entirely different waking up in the morning and praying. I read aloud six or seven different devotional books, one of which is the Bible and ask the Lord to be with me that day.

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house

There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.

I dont want to write a book; I dont want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines.

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

You could sing us the phone book and we would still love you.

You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Eat when it's time to eat. And move along when it's time to move along.

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.