From Book Quotes

I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid.

There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

There's just something that feels nice about holding a comic book!

I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon.

Maybe there will always be a market for the regular comic books because you can read [them] at your own pace. You can save them, collect them, [then] go back and read them again.

I'm used to doing comic books, where every month there's a new comic book! I find that the movie business is not quite the same. It doesn't move quite as fast.

The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.

I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it.

I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'.

What's your favorite book? "The last one I read.

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.

I may be able to put a good book tape on in the car on the way home and I will have a smile on my face.

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first choice is to run to the golf course if the weather is nice.

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me."

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.

I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.

…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.

Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.

Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.

We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you square between the eyeballs and you know that's the artist for the story.

It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.

I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.

When I was a kid, I used to be way more nerdy about comic books and comic book characters. I still love them, but I don't collect anymore.

I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

I don't write books inadvertently.