Book Quotes

"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer"

Len Deighton, Historian

"Well just meeting J. K. Rowling was amazing because she created all this world. And all the fans, we all get so obsessed with it and then you met the one person who made it all up. It was just so amazing. And I was just so amazed that that she wrote this book and all of the films have happened"

Evanna Lynch, Actress

"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it"

Lynn Redgrave, Actress

"I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books"

Michael Connelly, Author

"Alinsky's 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals," is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer"

Karl Rove, Politician

"I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself"

Mary Matalin, Celebrity

"But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day"

Sibel Edmonds, Public Servant

"Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap"

Tracy Kidder, Author

"Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas"

Roberta Flack, Musician

"I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks"

Samuel West, Actor

"I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book"

Connie Willis, Writer

"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?"

Richard Donner, Director

"More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works"

Brock Yates, Editor

"Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear"

Garson Kanin, Playwright

"There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him"

Peter Berg, Actor

"The book is really, really dark, to the point where some people that I've talked to have said that it could be a series. And I'm like, Where? VH1? It's a little hard for VH1"

Nikki Sixx, Musician

"I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker"

Ana Castillo, Novelist

"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing"

Michael Ondaatje, Author

"Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book"

Michael Lewis

"In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book"

Nora Roberts, Author

"Every single book is a challenge"

Nora Roberts, Author

"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world"

Delia Smith, Celebrity

"You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book"

Michael Lewis

"When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before"

Cliff Fadiman, Author

"I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened"

Mariel Hemingway, Actress

"I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books"

Joseph Fiennes, Actor

"Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer"

James Ellroy, Writer

"They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California"

Robert Stack, Actor

"I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment"

Raul Julia, Actor

"There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it"

Barry Sonnenfeld, Producer

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