Top 1200 Greatest Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

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

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

I re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the USA is her primary focus. Her book demonstrates that white is not universal, that white is not neutral, that it has a history, which she eloquently delineates. It's not often you finish a book understanding how the world operates better than before you read it.

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.

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

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.

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.

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.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

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.

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

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.

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

Book ideas are like planes, lined up to approach the runway. Some never leave the gate, but others move quickly to the front of the line. It was like that with The Four Purposes. Honestly, I cannot remember the moment I had the idea for the book; perhaps because it emerged like a green shoot emerging from the soil of my subconscious. But it seemed important enough to begin the flow of words that eventually shaped themselves into this new book.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

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.

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

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

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.

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

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

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.

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

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

We are indeed a nation of immigrants. People who choose to come to America have always been one of our greatest sources of national vitality. They keep our economy strong and our communities dynamic. They are some of our greatest patriots.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

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 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."

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

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

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

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.

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!'

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

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.

I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted to teach Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I hadn't read it in twenty-five years. I was surprised to find how much I drew from that book. Stole from that book, learned from that book about writing. I had forgotten and there it was. Morrison has called that text faulted. I cannot see how.

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.

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.

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

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.