Top 1200 Help Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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.

The people who need help, run and get help. They don't remember where they get the help. If the devil wants to reach the top, then the devil trying to use God to reach the top. 'Cause the devil have no creation. The devil can't copy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.

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."

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.

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

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.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you have to let go of the book.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.

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

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

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

You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us... or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else's "story" to the point where you start writing it.

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.

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

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

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.

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.

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 funniest book I've ever had read to me is 'I, Partridge.' It's a brilliantly written book, but it's the greatest audiobook there has ever been.

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.

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.

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!'

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

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