Quotes About Book

revisions in this second edition of The Out-of-Sync Child reflect Dr. Miller's work. Her wonderful book, Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (Perigee, 2007), explains the terminology in detail.

Writing a book is like dating. It's exciting. It's dreamy. And after four years, I just want to end it.

I don't like this culture of reading a book and spitting out an immediate reaction.

I like to curl up in a quiet corner and write a good book. I hate when life gets in the way of my hobbies.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

They had the unlettered man's respect for the written word. There was something formidable, even sacred, about a book. Only truth, it seemed, could be put in print.

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

Asha climbed quickly, to the fifth story and the room where her uncle read. Not that there are any rooms where he does not read. Lord Rodrik was seldom seen without a book in hand, be it in the privy, on the deck of his Sea Song, or whilst holding audience. Asha had oft seen him reading on his high seat beneath the silver scythes. He would listen to each case as it was laid before him, pronounce his judgment . . . and read a bit whilst his captain-of-guards went to bring in the next supplicant.

But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

Just finished reading the Koran—a good book and interesting.

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

I held it out and Caleb took it. This was the first book he had held in his hands. He made me smile, opening it upside down and back to front, but he touched the pages with the utmost care, as if gentling some fragile-boned wild thing. The godliest among us did not touch the Bible with such reverence as he showed to that small book.

So, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I will say nothing to the printing house, as my conscience requires of me. Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you.

We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

The best minister is the human heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.

Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders of the world.

I got you a present. Did you? It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

I hope I helped, but I have to tell you this sort of thing is a lot more exciting, and a lot less emotionally wearing, in a book than it is in real life." "You got that right.

So that someone might want to put you in a book...So that you may be worth putting in a book...Live like a hero...Be a main character. Otherwise, what is life for?