Quotes of: Library-book Keyword

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

Neil Jordan

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Mark Haddon

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

Bill Bryson

I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go on writing the book. It was like living in a padded cell, but of all the lives I could have lived at that moment, it was the only one that made sense t...

The Book of Illusions

She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and ...

The Book Thief

Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine, he thought, and the nuances to be teased from its pages are nearly infinit...

A Lion Among Men

We were bleeding information from the nose and ears, though dazed and disoriented was not how I experienced it. Most of the time, I felt like I was three years old, high on chocolate cake and social networks, constantly wired, ingesting information a...

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

A book a week I heave a sigh; That Slogan's peremptory cry I will not hear, I will not heed. How can They say that I should need The book They bid me weekly buy? But Slogans change, as days go by; My Psyche listens, fluttering shy, To newer message "...

The Book-Lovers Enchiridion: Thoughts on the Solace and Companionship of Books

You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't say a great deal. So much the better, there is no message that indiscreetly outshouts the message that the book itself must communicate...

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Elaine: [Book has just dropped off Rachel and Samuel at Elaine's] How could you do this to me tonight? John Book: It's important! Elaine: [Elaine runs upstairs and gets Rachel and Samuel settled, then runs down to chastise John] I told you I had comp...

Witness

[Lord Horror] was so unique and radical, I expected to go to prison for it. I always thought that if you wrote a truly dangerous book -- something dangerous would happen to you. Which is one reason there are so few really dangerous books around. Publ...

Love

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

Stacy Schiff

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

Frank Miller

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

Helen Dunmore

What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading.

Carmela Dutra

A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.

Douglas William Jerrold

Rudy Steiner: Good night, book thief. Liesel Meminger: Good night, fish.

The Book Thief

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

Richard Russo

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.

Richard K. Morgan