Book Quotes

"Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused"

"Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books"

"But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance"

David Brin, Author

"I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book"

Helen Dunmore, Poet

"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others"

Dean Koontz, Author

"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid"

Dean Koontz, Author

"My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy"

Judy Collins, Musician

"I'm not a comic book guy at all"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens"

David Brin, Author

"Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher"

Dean Koontz, Author

"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

"Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari"

Dean Koontz, Author

"Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life"

Dean Koontz, Author

"Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week"

Bette Midler, Actress

"If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?"

Bette Midler, Actress

"I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history"

Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete

"People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him"

Tom Felton, Actor

"There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment"

Tom Felton, Actor

"Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol"

Allen West, Politician

"At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself"

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

"And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it"

Al Franken, Comedian

"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book"

Neil Gaiman, Author

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