Top 1200 Good Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners.

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

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

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

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

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

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

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write them in this book. Grab a separate sheet of paper. I didn't spend two and a half weeks writing a book just so you could mark up the pages with your silly ideas for things you can do with a flowerpot. When it comes down to it, what's wrong with a flowerpot not being a flowerpot? Why is nothing ever good enough for you?

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.

Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

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

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