From Book Quotes

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them.

It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a book. I have to stick to it and concentrate.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.

Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.

You must show how gruesome that death is because if you don't, then you turn into some kind of comic book and pain, then death, doesn't have a consequence, and pain doesn't have a consequence.

I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.

Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.

I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

I love comic books, comic book characters and superheroes.

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes.

Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it.

The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.

Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

One of the things I would love to do is Axe Cop, which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in Axe Cop someday. I would also love to be in a Western.

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

I think when comic book fans hear parallel dimensions or multiple dimensions they think of Earth 616 and Earth 617 and Earth 618. That's all possible.

I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.

Kanye [West] just says the funniest analogies that are so random. I should start keeping a book - in 20 years, I'll have a big book of analogies.They always make me laugh.

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call