Top 1200 Amazing Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

Comic book characters are characters who wear costumes. They're not necessarily different than other characters. The trend I think that you're seeing are comic book movies, at least the ones that Marvel makes, don't have comic book stories. They have dramatic human stories.

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

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being written.

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be the truth, so that's kind of warts and all.

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'

I have amazing teammates, amazing coaches around me, and all I have to do is go play as hard as I could and play for one another, play for those guys and not look at the scoreboard, not look at the time.

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

A blurb might bring a reader to a book, but then the book itself has to do the rest of the work.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn't.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly decent the world over. Given the disparity of income and wealth, it's amazing not just that you don't get robbed everywhere - it's amazing you don't get eaten.

Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.

I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.

With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.

Music and football are two industries where black people excel, because talent is undeniable. You can't deny an amazing voice. You can't deny amazing athletic prowess. Physically, it's evident. But in other industries, circumstance is more of a thing.

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.

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

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.