This Is A Book Quotes

Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

Why sleep when there are books to read.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.

You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts?

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

From the Book of Mormon come other precious promises, including promises of peace, freedom, and blessings if we 'will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ' (Ether 2:12).

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.

[In the Flash my character] is not even CSI, it's forensic, talking about the stratum corneum...Yeah, I was referring to my Latin book often to make sure I pronounce things correct.

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books".

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

In fact, it is precisely because we have changed books that the chaos in our country has gotten worse than ever before.

It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.