From Book Quotes

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, "This can't be my life..."

I don't read books much.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

I'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't need a book like that.

We're living in a world where [Judy Blume] books were ever banned, and now like "Fifty Shades of Grey" is being read in high schools. Like it's just a wild.

I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working on a book and working, and just jam it in whenever it makes sense.

That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.

I don't even hate books anymore.

Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.'

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

This book is dedicated to all of my friends who helped me get to where I am today - you know who you are... and when I find you I am going to kill you.

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.