This Is A Book Quotes

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

No book so bad but some part may be of use.

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

Who needs to go somewhere when you can read about it.

Some day I'll write a book and call it 'How I Got the Nickname Pumpsie' and sell it for one dollar, and if everybody who ever asked me that question buys the book, I'll be a millionaire.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.

Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.