Top 1200 Life Of Pi Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

When I think of my best days as husband, I find I was doing what Regi said in this book. What Radical Husbands Do is a practical book I can safely give any man who is struggling in his marriage.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

I re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the USA is her primary focus. Her book demonstrates that white is not universal, that white is not neutral, that it has a history, which she eloquently delineates. It's not often you finish a book understanding how the world operates better than before you read it.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

I always travel with my iPod and I've never read a book in my life. It makes me tired; my brain is not set up for reading.

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

Book ideas are like planes, lined up to approach the runway. Some never leave the gate, but others move quickly to the front of the line. It was like that with The Four Purposes. Honestly, I cannot remember the moment I had the idea for the book; perhaps because it emerged like a green shoot emerging from the soil of my subconscious. But it seemed important enough to begin the flow of words that eventually shaped themselves into this new book.

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted to teach Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I hadn't read it in twenty-five years. I was surprised to find how much I drew from that book. Stole from that book, learned from that book about writing. I had forgotten and there it was. Morrison has called that text faulted. I cannot see how.

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one.

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

I don't intend to write the same kind of book for the rest of my life because I feel I would not be satisfied only writing in one mode.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

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

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

You always hope a book's going to be a success. I don't think I've ever written a book thinking, 'This will be bad and no-one will like it!'

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.

I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now means everything to me. I had many doubts and fears about that book, but some of what I feel are the best ideas in it came to me when I was working away for apparently no result. Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

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.

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

If you can just focus on creating your art whether that's music or writing a book or painting trust me it is really hard to balance that with a personal life. You have to be willing to sacrifice sometimes things in your personal life if your ultimate goal is to pursue things as an artist.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.

I believe the principles and techniques in this book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, can literally change the world, but more importantly, they can change the quality of your life with your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your co-workers and everyone else you interact with. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.

When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the book came out, it was surprising to me that the mental health community embraced it.

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

When me and my sister were toddlers, it was 'The Jungle Book' literally every day. If it was lunchtime, it was 'Jungle Book' time.