Top 1200 Funny Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

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

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

I believe if you've written a book, you have to stand up and say, 'Guys, buy the book.'

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

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

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

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

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.

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

Once, I was doing Bon Qui Qui in Miami, and this black girl was in the audience, and she yelled out, 'That's not funny!' which was really funny because she sounded exactly like the character I was playing.

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

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

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

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

I went to school for marketing and advertising, so I have a special interest in good and funny commercials and why they work and why they're funny - which is one of the reasons I, like many people, like watching the Super Bowl, besides the game.

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

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

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy?

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

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

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

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.

With comedy, don't try to be funny. That's really helped me. Just say the lines as you would say them, interact with other characters, and try to make it as real as possible. It will come out funny.

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

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

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

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

To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making points that they don't ... I'd rather be funny myself, and I'd rather listen to somebody with a little sense of humor.

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

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best book yet, but that one was the first book I wrote as a full-time author, with my full-time focus. I have a nostalgic feeling about it.

I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.

The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one thing, most of my picture books rhyme. Also, when I write a picture book I'm always thinking about the role the pictures will play in the telling of the story. It can take me several months to write a picture book, but it takes me several years to write a novel.

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

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

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.

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

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.

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

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

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.

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.

The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the character.

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.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

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