Book Quotes

If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.

It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

I read the books, get some, Listen to others, get little but what i get the most is to sit and think.

I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.

I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

I could write a book on the things I've done drunk.

I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.

Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of the first autonomous things we do, picking the books we want to read.

In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.

It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al)

Clinton Cash book had been hyped by Rand Paul and Fox News as a ticking time bomb.

The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not written in the first place.

I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.

I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire to make the story narrated in a book or an aspect of that story come alive in a game.

A one-word book does appeal to me.

That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

I don’t often know who should read what book. It’s a little bit like trying to set people up on a date - a good match is unpredictable and mysterious.

Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most.

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the rest of my life, I'd write comic books, because it's what I like doing.

I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.

Never index your own book.

Nothing in this book is true.

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

It sucks to try and book a tour without the internet, and I'm not even doing it.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.

There's more learning than is taught in books.

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Like mold on books, grow myths on history.