Top 1200 Book Of Disquiet Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the character.

I expected a lot of flak over my new book, '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' from, well, liberals. It's not a big shock that the kind of liberals I skewer in the book - the radical, Che Guevara-loving type - have posted scathing reviews at Amazon and written nasty e-mails and voiced opposition to a book they haven't actually read.

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

?'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

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

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

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.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

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

The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one thing, most of my picture books rhyme. Also, when I write a picture book I'm always thinking about the role the pictures will play in the telling of the story. It can take me several months to write a picture book, but it takes me several years to write a novel.

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best book yet, but that one was the first book I wrote as a full-time author, with my full-time focus. I have a nostalgic feeling about it.

I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because] then they would kind of bear the marks of those publications.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

I believe if you've written a book, you have to stand up and say, 'Guys, buy the book.'

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

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

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

Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

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.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being written.

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.

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

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

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.

A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

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.

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

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.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

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.

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway! ... You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

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.

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.