From Book Quotes

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in the books.

Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.

I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.

I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is what shows us at our most human.

I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a book down, and that was a tragedy.

Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.

Incense. Books. Just weird.

In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.

In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and the young are shaped by the old, in an evolving dance.

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years..."Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become

I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.

That's right, I am a book kisser.

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

I might have lost some skin, but I got kissed by a beautiful woman who was happy to see me. I gotta say that’s pretty epic in my book. Definitely not a worst-case day here.” – Sundown

I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.

I take time with each person and try to remember them, especially if they're a repeater from another event. I know a lot of authors just sign a book and keep their heads down, but I'm not like that.

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.