This Is A Book Quotes
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.
When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.
Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your mind as you are with the nutrition of your body.
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.
Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.
Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching.
He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.
I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.
I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction - it was a misprint.
I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to read all the books I want to read, I remind myself that the important ones find their way to me.
I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.
I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed.
Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.
Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.
This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?
There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories
My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.