This Is A Book Quotes

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and 'what is that?', and you waste a lot of time in this conflict.

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

The abundance of books is distraction

All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.

Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

If you're going to undertake any project, like a book, you have to show up to give.

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.

If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

Hasn’t anyone ever told you? Life isn’t fair.

Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me

Some walks you have to take alone.

The more likable he is, the more deadly he is.” -Katniss Everdeen