This Is A Book Quotes

I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been a very, very open book.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 [gibberish]. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You".

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

I'm a pretty open book.

I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.

I'm not the biggest comic book fan.

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.

I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick."

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get a story out, rather than writing a book.

I considered writing a book too, but I think people don't like to read, to be honest - they want to watch. People want to see crazy things, so we decided to make a film ["Selling Isobel"] instead.

The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.

We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.

Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes from my heart Are what I share. Words weren't made for cowards.

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

Great books conserve time.

Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.

When I'm writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.

Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

I'm a huge comic book fan - me and the kids.

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.