Top 1200 Life Of Pi Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

'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.

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.

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 know what kind of books I read on vacation, and it is not necessarily 'Diplomacy' by Henry Kissinger. No disrespect to that book; I have read that book. But not on spring break.

Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

Being a hardcore old-school comic book lover, it took me a while to accept the need for comic book movies.

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.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

I had ideas about music and sound and listening and time and so on that I wanted to pursue as an individual, and by doing that book, Brian [Eno] opened the door, and he decided to do a record based loosely on the book.

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.

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 knew that a zombie book would not particularly appeal to some of my previous readers, but it was artistically compelling, and being able to do a short nonfiction book about poker was really fun and great.

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.

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.

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

There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood ...in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.

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

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

The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.

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.

We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end loads of polish people turn up.

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.

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

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote a book. It's something real and tangible that sits on a shelf forever.

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

I didn't want to write a book as Stephen King's son, because all I did was get born, and that's not much of an accomplishment. If that was the reason my book was published, it wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on. I wanted to do my own thing.

Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.

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.

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.

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.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

I was lucky: I feel like I've written four books that mean something to me, and one book that means everything to me, and that's 'The Book Thief.'

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

I loved the idea of a book of fairytales meant especially for peculiar children, and I love even more the idea of making that fictional book real.

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

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

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.

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

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.

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.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

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.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.