Book Quotes

"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953"

Leon Uris, Writer

"For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs"

Roger Waters, Musician

"We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books"

Robert Asprin, Author

"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer"

Thomas Perry, Musician

"You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film"

Thomas Perry, Musician

"When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can"

Thomas Perry, Musician

"I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read"

Thomas Perry, Musician

"I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings"

Katy Perry, Musician

"Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out"

Leslie Charteris, Writer

"In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us"

Kit Williams, Author

"I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person"

Rita Dove, Poet

"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely"

John Hume, Politician

"The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"I don't like to make my life like a book"

Marc Newson, Designer

"When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before"

Peter Straub, Writer

"These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off"

Peter Straub, Writer

"There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth"

Peter Straub, Writer

"In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it"

Gloria Stuart, Actress

"Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves"

Jeremy Collier, Clergyman

"A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France"

Philip Gibbs, Journalist

"I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons"

Jared Diamond, Author

"We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"I read everything and anything. I love books"

Gail Porter, Celebrity

"Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!"

Frank Iero, Musician

"The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"Each new book is a tremendous challenge"

Peter Straub, Writer

"Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news"

Sean Bean, Actor

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