Book Quotes

We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project.

I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.

I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.

I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.

Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.

My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.

The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.

I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

If anyone was going to write a song or, you know, or a book, or make a film about a girl like me, it was going to have to be a girl like me, and quite literally, me.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing the rule book.

The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.

I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.