Book Quotes

"I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work"

Dean Koontz, Author

"Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles"

Annie Dillard, Author

"A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland"

Betty Hill, Celebrity

"I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy"

Robert Pattinson, Actor

"Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before"

Clifton Fadiman, Writer

"An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy"

Augustine Birrell, Author

"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book"

Joe Frazier, Athlete

"To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife"

Patricia Highsmith, Novelist

"I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"

Martin Bormann, Soldier

"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poet

"Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don't want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it's not unhealthy, so I'm going to rock with it"

Rihanna, Musician

"That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment"

Patricia Highsmith, Novelist

"Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story"

John McGahern, Writer

"In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics"

George Stephen, Businessman

"Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass"

Eudora Welty, Author

"A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films"

Alan Moore, Writer

"In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it"

Patty Hearst, Celebrity

"I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap"

Robert Ballard, Scientist

"The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb"

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion"

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books"

George Stephen, Businessman

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