Top 1200 Funny Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

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

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

What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance.

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

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

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.

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

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.

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

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.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

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

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

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

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

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

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.

Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.

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

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

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

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

Some people are funny, and some people are not funny. Many people who are not funny can make a living at it. You don't have to be great to make a living at it. Just like a doctor who doesn't have to be great can still make a living out of it.

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.

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

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

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

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

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

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

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

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

Anne Wiazemsky wrote two books about her life with Jean-Luc Godard between 1966 and 1969. And I first read the second one, which is about the fall of their love story and their marriage. I immediately thought there was a movie to make with this book because it was so funny, and I thought the love story was very, very touching.

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

The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.

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

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

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

I think funny comes from tragedy and time. And I think that's where I get it. I'm able to take things that are serious and sad, and turn it into funny. In all honesty - this is after a lot of therapy - I think that, you know, I need love from something, and so now, I find it through performing.

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

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

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.

If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect you to be funny, and if you're not, they notice. Whereas if you read a regular op-ed about Israel or the family or medicine, you're not starting with the assumption that you're supposed to laugh.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

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.

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

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.

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.

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

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

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

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

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.

All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.