Book Quotes

I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

I should have written books instead of reading them.

One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.

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.

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To the point that I have to be careful that they don't take over.

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways to connect over a book or books, whatever they may be.

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

As far as Love Dare for Parents goes, you can download the book. You can buy it at bookstores...We're really excited about it and believe that it's going to make significant impact for parents.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

I look at comic books, and I do very eclectic mood boards with ideas and images that have to do with a character or story point. It's a bit like spinning plates. You gradually just steal your ideas.

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.

But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just can't get caught in here.

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself