Book Quotes - Page 134

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

Books always speak of other books.

I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write. I can write without getting writers block so I knew, it was a gift.

People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in Government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.

The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written . . . the book is merely a symbol of the writing. In writing the book, I am living. I am growing. I am tapping myself. I am changing. The process is the product.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

I've read too many books to believe what I am told.

I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god.

Some people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people are like. If you read a comic, it's showing you." The only answer I can give is, "You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.

Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation.

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.