Book Quotes

If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.

I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight

My books arose from my own experience, when I sought guidance in practical leadership in my career. In sum, I strive to write the kind of book that I would find valuable in my own life.

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?

What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

When you go out to Hollywood, it's like, "Here's the book. It is what it is. It'll always stay the same."

None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!

I do read, but not as much as I'd like to. I take five books at once and just scan through them.

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book via iPhone.

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

Really, though, I just want to make the kind of comics I wouldn't be embarrassed to read in public.

It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not.

I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.

Most books about Stanley Kubrick were written by people who never met him and gathered information from articles written by others who didn't know him either.