Book Quotes

"Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke"

"People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me"

LaToya Jackson, Musician

"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'"

Jewel, Musician

"There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book"

Howard Aiken, Scientist

"Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose"

Beverley Nichols, Writer

"I feel I've got 10 books in me"

Robert Hunter, Musician

"You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book"

Richard McKenna, Writer

"But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor"

Ray Walston, Actor

"There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible"

Mark Rylance, Actor

"I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team"

Vince Carter, Athlete

"What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses"

David Baker, Composer

"This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness"

Isaac Mayer Wise, Clergyman

"I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character"

Jane Haddam, Writer

"I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter"

Jane Haddam, Writer

"I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere"

Robert McCloskey, Author

"I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles"

Greg Louganis, Athlete

"All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?"

Daniel Pinkwater, Author

"I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing"

Richard Donner, Director

"And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking"

Nora Roberts, Author

"I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book"

Neil Jordan, Director

"It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books"

James Ellroy, Writer

"Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever"

William Styron, Novelist

"On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do"

William Bolcom, Composer

"You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm"

Robyn Davidson, Writer

"Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages"

Paul Scofield, Actor

"A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter"

Paul Scofield, Actor

"Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action"

Patrick Warburton, Actor

"With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

"I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him"

Jay McShann, Musician

"I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office"

James Rollins, Author

"When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans"

Mario Batali, Celebrity

"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before"

Clifton Paul Fadiman, Writer

"Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included"

Chris Ware, Artist

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