Top 1200 Open Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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.

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

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.)

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.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

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

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that words printed on paper and bound between cloth covers will someday be obsolete. But if and when that day comes, there will still be a thing called books.

I look at every book as a self-help 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.

The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the book starts a few years before my birth until right about the end of junior high. And yes, I am contractually obliged to mention this as much as possible (each time I do, HarperCollins sends me a free pizza).

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

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

For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. The great artists have been open-minded, even though they may seem, like Picasso, to be very directed, you can be directed and open-minded at the same time. I think you have to be really intensely serious about your work, but not so serious that you can't see the lightness that may also involve your life. You have to have that lightness too. You have to not be so heavy-handed and so ostentatious. It's very important not to be.

I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book.

If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the 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 didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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 a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something away from the 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.

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.

Hillary Clinton has finished writing her book where she says her marriage couldn't be stronger, and Bill just finished his book titled 'Chicks I Nailed While Hillary was Writing Her Book.'

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

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.

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.

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

Bonkers doesn't go by the book-he doesn't even know there is a book.

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

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

You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter." "Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm waiting for the movie," Puck said.

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.

It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

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

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

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

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

To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up.

If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

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'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who pays what for speaking. Some words are open. Love is a word another kind of open — As a diamond comes into a knot of flame I am black because I come from the earth's inside. Take my word for jewel in your open light.

'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'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my 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.

The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.