Top 1200 Paradise Lost Book 1 Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.

Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.

My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be the truth, so that's kind of warts and all.

A heart that has lost knows every other heart that has lost. Late and soon, loss is all the same.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

Battles, on the military and the economic front, are first lost in the minds of the strategists for want of ideas before they are lost on the battleground for want of armoury.

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

I've lost my share in the pen. I don't keep track, but I've won much more than I've lost. Since I was released almost one year ago, I've gone 9-1. My only loss was to a punk that brought mace to the dance.

[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they've got left.

I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

A blurb might bring a reader to a book, but then the book itself has to do the rest of the work.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

?'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

I've become a huge fan of the subway, even though I've gotten lost... well, not lost, but went the wrong direction on the subway a couple of times.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.