Book Quotes

Every day is a fresh start

What is it with you and that book?"Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.

Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

A book is like a trip to a world of imagination and creativity, and those who don’t read will for ever stay in the same place.

To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful.

Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.

An angel is an empty comic book thought bubble. The content has to be filled in by the viewer.

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

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.'

I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds, it still takes so long to publish a book.

Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

I wrote my first book in fifth grade. It was about a dog that goes to outer space and is an ambassador for Earth.

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

Don't give me books for Christmas I already have a book.

I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me?

I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.

I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.

I'm not of a science background, I was never a comic book geek, and I was never a gamer.

I have a deal with HBO to develop television, and I am also developing a movie called 'The Abstinence Teacher, ' which is based on a book by Tom Perrotta.

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.

As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the '80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez 'New Teen Titans.' That was definitely the book that hooked me.

'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.

There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World, ' which was based on a teen book, and it's a fabulous story, and hopefully it'll go to theaters because it is an amazing story.

In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing.

If I get a chance to write a comic book or do a voice in an Adult Swim show, I do it. It's much more fulfilling to me and I get to work with people who I'm a fan of.

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter, ' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!