Top 1200 Favorite Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.

The beginning of my love for football goes back to when I was seven years old. I was spending time with my grandmother, Caletha Vick. I never knew anything about the game until one Sunday afternoon when she turned on the television because the Redskins were playing. They were my Uncle Casey's favorite team-and my grandmother's favorite too. After watching the game with them, I was hooked.

I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a terrible book.

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.

'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

It was exciting to work with director Jennifer Baichwal, who made Manufactured Landscapes and others, on the film of Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. It's called, simply, PAYBACK. Jennifer didn't want to do a transliteration of the book, a kind of illustrated version, but to go into the core of the book: owing and being owed, paying and paying back, on all sorts of levels. So she found real-life, visceral stories that embodied the themes of the book.

The funniest book I've ever had read to me is 'I, Partridge.' It's a brilliantly written book, but it's the greatest audiobook there has ever been.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through.

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and get to the end of it, but I'm a book philanderer.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

I was lucky: I feel like I've written four books that mean something to me, and one book that means everything to me, and that's 'The Book Thief.'

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

I'm a huge advocate of all sciences. And my favorite - actually, not my favorite because I love all sciences - but my primary science that I study all the time is physics. It's the mother of all sciences because it's just how things move and how things react to the world around them. I feel like I would definitely go to college for physics.

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book. Well, your book is just wrong.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.

I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.

If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.

I loved the idea of a book of fairytales meant especially for peculiar children, and I love even more the idea of making that fictional book real.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.

In the case of 'The Book Thief,' my research was hearing the stories of my parents when I was a child. But I started changing the stories when I began moulding the book.

I'm in a comic book fan. I have long boxes at home. I'm a comic book collector; I'm not joking. It's just the coolest thing ever.

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you have to let go of the book.

We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end loads of polish people turn up.

You always hope a book's going to be a success. I don't think I've ever written a book thinking, 'This will be bad and no-one will like it!'

I know what kind of books I read on vacation, and it is not necessarily 'Diplomacy' by Henry Kissinger. No disrespect to that book; I have read that book. But not on spring break.

I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire.

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.