Top 1200 Burn Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

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.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

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

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.

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the 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.

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

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

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

?'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

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

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

My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

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

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

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

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

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

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

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

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

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.

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

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

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

Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.

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

I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be the truth, so that's kind of warts and all.

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.

Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.

Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being written.

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.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?