Quotes About Book

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.

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

I signed my first book contract without paying much attention to what it said. I didn't know at the time that the book would be a best seller or that it would one day inspire a Netflix series. I just needed the money.

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

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

In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.

'Simon' was such a charmed experience.

It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.

There's a lot of books that I've purchased simply because of the cover design. On the other hand, there's certain books that, even if I'm very curious about the content, I can't bring myself to buy if I really dislike the cover.

A good reader pays attention to everything. The surface of the prose. The structure of the book. The tense. The point of view. Perhaps to those even before the characters. Then comes the setting. The story can often come last.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves.

La fotografía en un libro es, obviamente, la imagen de una imagen.

I've always believed there's something magical about a book. A bundle of paper and ink that can change your life.

She was in the middle of reading The Book Thief about a girl in Nazi Germany surviving something horrific.

I am a Book," said Vinculus, stopping in mid-caper. "I am the Book. It is the task of the Book to bear the words. Which I do. It is the task of the Reader to know what they say.

Ah, but sir,' said Lascelles, 'it is precisely by passing judgments upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest thing in the world to turn a review to one's own ends. One only need mention the book once or twice and for the rest of the article one may develop one's theme just as one chuses. It is, I assure you, what every body else does.

If there is anything that is likely to put me to sleep," he said, "it would be an English history book. So you can hold hands with a clear conscience." "I'm going with Nurse Burrows." "You can still hold hands." "I've no patience with you," she said patiently and faded backwards into the gloom.

Because I've not written a book before, you mean?" "No, that doesn't matter at all. Most people's first books are their best anyway; it's the one they wanted most to write. No