From Book Quotes

The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

Big-endians and small-endians.

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel but I know what the ending will be already.

My favorite part of any baseball book - and I read a lot of them - is the anecdotes. I believe there is a story within every boxscore and for me - the more outrageous the better!

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.

My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read.

I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

A great large book is a great evil.

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.

There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.

They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

They tell us the Book of Mormon states that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Ghost. I CHALLENGE THAT STATEMENT. The Book of Mormon teaches NO SUCH THING! NEITHER DOES THE BIBLE.

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.

Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole

You can't click through a book, you can't hyperlink and jump out of it. It requires a little bit more of a regular engagement.

There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start reading, within reason, can lead to other discoveries.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet.

Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.