Book Quotes

"Each new book is a tremendous challenge"

"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

"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme"

Mark Mothersbaugh, Musician

"I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture"

Lisa Whelchel, Actor

"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church"

Charles King, Politician

"The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do"

Bill Murray, Actor

"I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written"

Rudolf Otto, Theologian

"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions"

Richard Price, Writer

"I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book"

Robert Redford, Actor

"Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful"

Ice Cube, Musician

"I'm an open book"

Benny Hinn, Clergyman

"I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt"

Benny Hinn, Clergyman

"I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

"Even bad books are books and therefore sacred"

Gunter Grass, Author

"I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"A good title is the title of a successful book"

Robert C. Gallagher, Author

"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep"

Janet Street-Porter

"To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story"

Rex Stout, Writer

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

"The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire"

Michael Chabon, Author

"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium"

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician

"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations"

Curt Weldon, Politician

"Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess"

Robert Adamson, Philosopher

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