Book Quotes

"I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner"

Phil Mickelson, Athlete

"In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out"

Margaret Weis, Writer

"Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it"

Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer

"We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?"

Walter Matthau, Actor

"In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom"

Rumer Godden, Novelist

"Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write"

Julien Green, Novelist

"Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books"

Ann Rule, Writer

"Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!"

Ruth Gordon, Actress

"I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on"

Rupert Grint, Actor

"If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept"

James Collins, Athlete

"The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again"

Hansie Cronje, Athlete

"My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons"

Meg Cabot, Author

"My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky"

Judith Rossner, Novelist

"My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of my time doing gigs, TV appearances, interviews, or recording. I could write a book - and probably will"

Suzi Quatro, Musician

"A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working"

Lisa Loeb, Musician

"No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them"

Jack L. Chalker, Author

"When a new book is published, read an old one"

Samuel Rogers, Poet

"Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers"

Charles W. Eliot, Educator

"I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment"

Tina Brown, Editor

"Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner"

Ravi Shankar, Musician

"I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy"

Johann Heinrich Lambert, Mathematician

"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings"

Ikue Mori, Musician

"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant"

Lawrence Clark Powell

"Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories"

Mario Vargas Llosa, Writer

"I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him"

Daniel Pinkwater, Author

"You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society"

Samantha Morton, Actress

"Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book"

Robert Bloomfield, Poet

"Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring"

Charles Guggenheim, Director

"I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books"

Len Deighton, Historian

"Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me"

Sharon Olds, Poet

"In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation"

Ken Follett, Author

"I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style"

Louis Aragon, Poet

"I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed"

Karen Black, Actress

"I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell"

Paula Danziger, Author

"Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things"

Lawrence Clark Powell

"There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books"

Joe Sacco, Journalist

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