Book Two Quotes

Book Two Quote of the day

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

Read two old books for every new one.

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man, and the other being Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm looking forward to.

Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

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.

I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.

When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on.