From Book Quotes

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't think readers would know they were by the same author.

There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.

The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

Loving and appreciative, researched to a fare-thee-well, and pitched to both fans and first-time viewers of Singin' in the Rain, this delightful book delivers almost as much fun as the film itself.

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.

If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here.

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.

And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job.

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story not thinking about who wrote it.

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

hey guys i would like you to try this book you will love it!

Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book!

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.

Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

To start with, look at all the books.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.

Whatever else the Book of Mormon makes clear, it makes clear that every soul in every dispensation is precious to God, and therefore no age or era was-or is-left without its witness of Christ.