Top 1200 Amazing Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

'Westworld' is going to be incredible, and the production line is amazing. That was really nice because Lisa Nolan, who is in charge there, is fabulous and is a great example of a woman doing that role. So that was great, and she's amazing - an incredible writer and fantastic to work with.

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.

I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.

No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it's even better.

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

I mean, it's amazing that I get to meet all these people. I've learned so much from all of them. I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

If you can take something as ultimately frivolous [as a comic book] in the cosmic scale of things in the universe and what's important - people being born and dying and everything else that's gonna happen today - if one gay kid in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, reads an X-Men comic and feels for a second like maybe they're not entirely alone in the world - that's amazing. I'll take it. Whatever size victory that is, I will take.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult, instead of sharpening concentration we tend to set it aside and instead turn on the television, which not only requires minimal attention, but in fact tends to diffuse what little it commands with choppy editing, commercial interruptions, and generally inane content.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.

I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.

The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad.

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they can make a lot of money and they build an audience from book to book, but I don't like that as a writer. I prefer the idea of just telling a story, completing it within your book, and moving on and not forcing a child to read eight of them.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.

Putting ideas into a book means I can help even more people by getting the book into everyone's hands.

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

My time at Oklahoma State and in Stillwater has been amazing. I met some amazing people, got to play with some great guys and great teammates, and I built some strong relationships and bonds there.

A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.

I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?

We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.