Top 1200 Good Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

Along the way, about certain things, you realize, "I don't know anything about this." You think, "Is this going to sound ridiculous?" So I pestered more than a hundred different people over the course of the book. And when I finished the book I gave it to six or seven trusted readers, who are always the same, but I also gave it to a brother of mine who's a doctor and I asked him to read it, and he was very helpful. It's good to have a group of trusted readers. As my kids have grown up, they've joined this group.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

'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.

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

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

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.

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'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole life.

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

... 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.

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

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.

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

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

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

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.

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

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

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 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 friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.' Because they're fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That's the challenge.

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.

Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

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.)

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 think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

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 fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

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

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

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

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

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 must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

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.

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.

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.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

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

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

Quite often in comic book movies, very good actresses are relegated to being the girlfriend or the helper or the sidekick or something.

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.

All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'