Book Quotes

Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

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

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that's reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site.

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

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.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.