This Is A Book Quotes

I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.

Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!

We all can dance when we find music that we love.

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.

Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.

My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists.

I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.

Nothin’s real scary except in books.

Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.

While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid I get that I'm going to stop seeing things.

I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a cassette. I have heard the voice of God.

When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.

I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.

There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

Life is too short to read inferior books.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

The simplest science book is over my head.

For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.