Top 1200 Book Learning Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be the truth, so that's kind of warts and all.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.

With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

Deep learning allows you to create predictive models at a level of quality and sophistication that was previously out of reach. And so deep learning also enhances the product function of data science because it can generate new product opportunities.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also dont be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

A blurb might bring a reader to a book, but then the book itself has to do the rest of the work.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'

For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

We have to come back to basics: learning how to take care of ourselves. Not only learning to love our bodies - and that's a good beginning - but to take care of our bodies and ourselves by learning how to eat and how to think. I think living is really about thoughts and food, and we've got to get back to basics.

Comic book characters are characters who wear costumes. They're not necessarily different than other characters. The trend I think that you're seeing are comic book movies, at least the ones that Marvel makes, don't have comic book stories. They have dramatic human stories.

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

When I read Matt Ruff's book, that was my first encounter with learning about sundown towns, and I was like 'What?' Like, you can't make this up. If I wrote this horror movie talking about sundown towns where you can't be black after dark in America, people be like, 'OK, we get the metaphor,' and it's like, no, that's real. It's not a metaphor.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn't.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

Maybe I'm just stubborn about learning new things - I can't stand learning new programs - but any sound I can imagine, I can make with SoundForge. And I'm using the old version, like 4.5 from 1999. I use it for every sound.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.