From Book Quotes

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.

At a certain point people want to see other movies besides comic book movies so you have to be really careful what you're going to pick, and how many are going to be released within a year.

Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your temple, your city.

I'm pretty much an open book.

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there?

Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to prudently follow the advice to write what you know.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.

The whole world makes comic book movies now.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at that moment in my life.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.

If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.

I just want to write someone’s favorite book

I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

I've read the Book of Revelation a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

I love comic books. I just do.

I like working on action films, and I like working on movies that are comic book based, or that have this theme, because they're things I watched or loved as a kid.

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.

Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your heart.

I'm a comic book fan.

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

I have a nineteen-month old daughter. I totally don't mind devoting time to her. When you have a kid, it's hard to go out to the movies. I really don't know what's going on with comic book movies.

I really want to do a True Blood-Six Feet Under comic book crossover.

Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture.

Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set.

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.