From Book Quotes

I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale.

I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.

I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.

In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

I think it's nice to get a break from all of the big Hollywood comic book action-movies and see something that's relatable and funny and interesting.

The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.

If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

I looked at Tank Girl, which is the coolest comic, ever. The movie didn't make the comic book any less cool. The comic is still the comic.

The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.

A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

My life and my legs have been an open book.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes.

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working.

Well in the comic book world, I think the Hulk is the strongest, but I think I'd give him a heck of a fight!

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

They defy gravity, as good books should.

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.