Book Quotes

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.

I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books.

In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too.

I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.

The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.

Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition.

If this was a normal cover for a normal book,I would tell it's FANTASTIC!GRIPPING! (according to all book covers they're fantastic and gripping)

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

If we're not counting kids' movies - because my kid is constantly watching The Jungle Book - I would have to say Wall Street.

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

You know, I'm pretty much an open book.

The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.

I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book. But there is great source material for those kinds of films.

I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

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

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did it without any ego involved and that you did it for somebody else. That's the best you can do.

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.