Top 1200 Book Of Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.

I'm definitely a closed book and that's extended through most of my life, not just football.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Roy Race was a comic book hero, and Steven Gerrard is a real-life one.

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a smaller book.

I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her childhood.

Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

I found a book in my elementary school library when I was ten called 'All about You' which was a book on the human body. I was hooked.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once. The thing that struck me about it was that the ending wasn't an ending. It was essentially a cliffhanger. It was the first time I had ever read anything like that, where you read a book, but the book isn't the book.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

Putting ideas into a book means I can help even more people by getting the book into everyone's hands.

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

It's such a unique story. Book of Joshua in the Bible wasn't always my favorite book, by the way. Only some ago did I realize that this book covers a seven-year period in the history of ancient Israel in which they literally went undefeated.They did have one setback, but outside of that, they defeated over 30 kings. They recaptured the Promised Land. They did what their ancestors said they could not.

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.

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

I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Most people are always wondering what to say. With me, life is an open book.

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

If my life has got a book, I will write a word 'Super Junior' the biggest in it.

But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment; it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

I'd love to write a book called 'How to Raise a Virgin.' Seriously, I think a book about that would sell.

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as young as eight or nine years old. But then they grow with the reader. Book Two is bigger, Book Three is even bigger. And they grow more violent and more confrontational.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

I wrote a book, and I just love it when people come up to me and say, 'I read your book and loved it.'

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book its best chance to shine.

I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?

... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book - if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

I've always been a chameleon from book to book, like a director who does different films in the best possible way.