Top 1200 Life Is Like A Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.

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

I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book - one of these rare books I wish had been even longer. It's about how Darwin 's theory - supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus - led to the murder of millions of innocent people.

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

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

There is no frigate like a book

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

'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'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'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?

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

I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years..."Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!

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

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

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

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.

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

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in my head. I was thinking about this the other day. I wrote the first book in 1987. Literally every day since that time, Elvis and Joe have been in my head. They're always there. I started these guys because I like them.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

You mean, like a book?

Stephen King told me a long time ago, when he gave me some advice about the movies. He said to take the money up front and expect it to be something different than the book and if you don't like that don't deal with Hollywood. But if you take the money, shut up and don't criticize the film because you sold it. The movie doesn't change a word of the book.

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

Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home.

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.

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.

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.

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