Book Quotes

"I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out"

"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history"

"To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it"

Bille August, Director

"That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

"What I do in my book is let people know about these programs"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both"

Robert Musil, Writer

"I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book"

Sela Ward, Actress

"Everything in the world exists to end up in a book"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"I love comic books and always did as a kid"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me"

Thomas More, Author

"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me"

John Sayles, Director

"A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou"

Edward Fitzgerald, Poet

"My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

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