This Is A Book Quotes

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

A book should be made like a watch and sold like a sausage.

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be saved is the gospel of John.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be friends with those who don't love any books? I'm not so sure of that.

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.

I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.

Snoop is a tour de force! It’s one of the smartest and most original books I’ve come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist.

In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

If you don't like my book, write your own.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.

I'm a geek of all general types. I like a little bit of everything, I love comic books, I love pro-wrestling, I love video games.

This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna stop a criminal from getting a gun.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.