Book Quotes

"In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons"

Ruth First, Activist

"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

"I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"Book - what they make a movie out of for television"

Leonard L. Levinson

"People like her because she's like a breath of fresh air. Because in the fifth book it gets so dark and Harry's always cross and then every time Luna comes in all the tension goes and she makes you laugh because she's so funny and really honest. I don't know how much I'm like her, there are some similarities but I'm more determined than her"

Evanna Lynch, Actress

"It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press"

Charles James

"Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it"

Adam Clymer, Journalist

"I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie"

William Peter Blatty, Writer

"A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic"

Roy Blount, Jr., Writer

"The wise man reads both books and life itself"

Lin Yutang, Author

"It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means"

Daniel Clowes, Author

"The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road"

Lisa Loeb, Musician

"I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues"

Paula Danziger, Author

"I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever"

Martin Farquhar Tupper, Writer

"The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world"

William Floyd, Politician

"I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible"

James Paget, Scientist

"I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that"

Edward G. Robinson, Actor

"My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is"

Michael Lewis

"Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book"

Malcolm Cowley, Critic

"One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings"

Satish Kumar, Activist

"They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising"

Macaulay Culkin, Actor

"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen"

Robert Rodriguez, Director

"In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator"

Fulton Oursler

"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves"

Claud-Adrian Helvetius, Philosopher

"I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one"

Jason Biggs, Actor

"The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book"

James Rollins, Author

"I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away"

Mary Grandpre

"Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies"

S. E. Hinton, Writer

"The stitch of a book is its words"

Rumer Godden, Novelist

"I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music"

Alan Lomax, Writer

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