Top 1200 Great Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby -- there isn't any comparison.

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

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

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

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

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

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.

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

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

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

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

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.

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.

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.

We've seen from shows like 'Game of Thrones' that the book can become a seed, which you plant in the ground of great TV creators, and it can sprout out into a big tree.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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