Top 1200 Book Of Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

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

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

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

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.

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

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

It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.

There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.

Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.

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

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they can make a lot of money and they build an audience from book to book, but I don't like that as a writer. I prefer the idea of just telling a story, completing it within your book, and moving on and not forcing a child to read eight of them.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my personal life, health crises, or the deaths of my parents, because there can too easily be a perception of me that my life just went from A to Z uninterrupted, without any ups and downs, and that's not a fair representation.

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

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.

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.

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

You ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

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

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

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

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

There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.

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

Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It is a book full of light and wisdom, will make you wise to eternal life, and furnish you with directions and principles to guide and order your life safely and prudently.

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

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

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.

No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

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.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

I think I sent one [book] to Brian Eno. I don't know how I got to know his address, but I sent one to him. He called me up and he said, "I really like the book, and I'm starting a new label, would you liked to do something?" It was a tricky situation for me, because I've always had this thing in my life of a tension between collaboration, which was extremely important to me, and then being alone. Make of that what you will!

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

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.

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

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

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

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

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

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

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.