Top 1200 Mockingjay Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

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

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

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

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.

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.

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

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

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

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

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

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.

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

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

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.

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'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.

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

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

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

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.

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they can make a lot of money and they build an audience from book to book, but I don't like that as a writer. I prefer the idea of just telling a story, completing it within your book, and moving on and not forcing a child to read eight of them.

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.

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

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

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

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

We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.

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

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

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

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

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

A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

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

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

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

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

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.