Top 1200 Book Of Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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

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

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

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

I don't think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life. And somehow I feel that these comic book stories are like fairy tales for older people, because they have the same qualities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

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

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

The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.

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.

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

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

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

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

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

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

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

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.

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.

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

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

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

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

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

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.

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.