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

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

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.

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

When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.

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.

The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under the exactingly careful guidance of Bharat Tandon of the University of East Anglia. Belknap has once again done its end of the job superbly: the book is a physical treat-luxuriantly over-sized, heavy with quality paper and solid binding, decked out in a beautiful cover and dozens of well-chosen illustrations throughout. This is one of the prettiest Jane Austen volumes available in bookstoresthis season.

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.

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.

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

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.

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.

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 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.

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.

... 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.

Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

I think increasingly consumers are judging the quality of their travel and hotel experiences by their ability to have access to basic technologies, including Wi-Fi.

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice.

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.

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.

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

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.)

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

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

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

Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.

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.

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.

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.

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.