Top 1200 Book Of Disquiet Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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