Top 1200 Book Readers Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.

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.

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

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.

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

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the USA is her primary focus. Her book demonstrates that white is not universal, that white is not neutral, that it has a history, which she eloquently delineates. It's not often you finish a book understanding how the world operates better than before you read it.

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.

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!'

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

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.

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.

Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now means everything to me. I had many doubts and fears about that book, but some of what I feel are the best ideas in it came to me when I was working away for apparently no result. Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted to teach Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I hadn't read it in twenty-five years. I was surprised to find how much I drew from that book. Stole from that book, learned from that book about writing. I had forgotten and there it was. Morrison has called that text faulted. I cannot see how.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

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.

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."

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

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

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.

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.'