Top 1200 Mockingjay Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the 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 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.

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.

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

You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.

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

I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to 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.

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

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

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.

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.

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

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

... 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.

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.

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.

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.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

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

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.

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

Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.

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

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

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

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

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.)

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once. The thing that struck me about it was that the ending wasn't an ending. It was essentially a cliffhanger. It was the first time I had ever read anything like that, where you read a book, but the book isn't the book.

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.

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.