This Is A Book Quotes

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.

Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.

The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book?

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.

My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?

I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art.

Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.

Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books that I write - and it's the only kinds of books I'm capable of writing.

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.

When I'm not working I'm a slug - a full slug. I am not good at the in-between. I'm either fever-pitched or want to just pass out on a beach with a really sleazy book and eat a cheeseburger.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

I hardly ever look at my published books.

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children’s point of view.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books.

I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book.

There have been so many interpretations of both Batman and the Joker in the comic books themselves over the decades, from one extreme to the next, and in the media, from one extreme to the next.

I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood.

You can almost take the book and use it as a script.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.