Book Book Quotes

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!

You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale.

I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.

I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.

In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific.

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.

If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong.

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.

It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

My life and my legs have been an open book.

I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

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?

They defy gravity, as good books should.

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been a very, very open book.

Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 [gibberish]. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You".

I'm a pretty open book.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

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.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes from my heart Are what I share. Words weren't made for cowards.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

Great books conserve time.

When I'm writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a book. I have to stick to it and concentrate.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

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

I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.

Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.