A Book Quotes

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

For my Perfect Chemistry series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them.

[the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing."

If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.

Dr. [ Peter R.] Breggin's book can show you how to take your child back from the authoritarian state that wants to dope your child up because he may be misbehaving.

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

I can remember being bullied and teased. It was absolutely horrible. I got kicked out of ninth grade for throwing a book at a girl who teased me. It was absolutely terrible.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.

Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

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.

When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.