Top 1200 Alice And Wonderland Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

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

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

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 remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

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.

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 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.

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

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.

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.

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.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

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.

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.

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

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

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.

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in 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.

But one of my absolutely favorite things to do is go to comic book stores on the weekends. I'm a huge comic book nerd.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Book ideas are like planes, lined up to approach the runway. Some never leave the gate, but others move quickly to the front of the line. It was like that with The Four Purposes. Honestly, I cannot remember the moment I had the idea for the book; perhaps because it emerged like a green shoot emerging from the soil of my subconscious. But it seemed important enough to begin the flow of words that eventually shaped themselves into this new book.

When me and my sister were toddlers, it was 'The Jungle Book' literally every day. If it was lunchtime, it was 'Jungle Book' time.

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

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

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.