Book Quotes

I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

I try to be an open book now as much as possible.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.

I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

My life is pretty much an open book.

I've been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows.

A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.

...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.

[What's my favourite book?] It changes all the time.

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

Photography is like an open book to the world.

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

Good authour Good books

A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.

I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

Ive never really been a big sci-fi guy or a big comic book guy.

You can't kill a good comic book series.

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

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

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

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