Top 1200 Book Of Revelation Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

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

This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

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.

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.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

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 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 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.

The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.

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.

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

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.

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?'

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

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.

Being a hardcore old-school comic book lover, it took me a while to accept the need for comic book movies.

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?

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.

Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.

Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

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

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

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

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.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

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.

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

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

I can fill a church speaking on Revelation and empty it speaking on Romans.

God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.

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 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.

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.

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.'

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.

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 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.

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.

My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

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.

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

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

A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.

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.

Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation.

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

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

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.

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

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

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.