Top 1200 Book Readers Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

... 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.

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

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.

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.

Anything, even the conceptually most complex material, can be written for general audiences without any dumbing down. Of course you have to explain things carefully. This goes back to Galileo, who wrote his great books as dialogues in Italian, not as treatises in Latin. And to Darwin, who wrote The Origin of Species for general readers. I think a lot of people pick up Darwin's book and assume it must be a popular version of some technical monograph, but there is no technical monograph. That's what he wrote. So what I'm doing is part of a great humanistic tradition.

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.

In my case, I made the decision early on that I was going to be very open about the book and claim upfront that each of the stories was based on my life experience. I think my reasoning goes back to what I was saying earlier, about wanting the book to be "more than a book," that I wanted the reader to feel a little unsettled about what they were reading: there's a core of factual truth here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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

When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.

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 that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life

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.

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.

The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally hate an illustration of a character on a jacket of a book. I never want to have someone show me what the character really looks like - or what some artist has decided the character really looks like - because it always looks wrong to me. I realize that I prefer to kind of meet the text halfway and offer a lot of visual collaborations from my own imaginative response to the sentences.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen - I want them to feel epic and know that they are epic.

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

You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book ? if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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