Top 1200 Book Titles Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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'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.'

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.

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

The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 agonize over things like this - the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out.

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

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.

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.

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

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.

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."

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.

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

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 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 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.

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

It hurts me because of what he's doing to boxing. Because one of the most important world titles is at stake now. The champion has to defend it against the best.

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.

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.

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.