From Book Quotes

Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.

The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring!

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.

When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.

You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.

I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you got started, that's equally true for all the books you didn't start.

I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.

I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

I've always tried to really focus on The Hunger Games movie, knowing that, yes, these are amazing books and I would feel like a failure, if I didn't get all three of them made.

You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene is there.

Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

The biblical story of Noah can be found in the book of Genesis.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie.

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews came to Japan, a semi-feudal society.

The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions.

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.

He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books." ~Eternity in Death

I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

Every single book is a challenge.

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.

I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath and several books... I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.