Book Quotes

"One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"All of my books now come from readers' ideas"

Ann Rule, Writer

"And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'"

Steve Brown, Musician

"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate"

Ken Follett, Author

"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews"

Ira Glass, Journalist

"Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!"

Nigel Dennis, Writer

"A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock"

Nigel Dennis, Writer

"For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates"

Michael Musto, Writer

"I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future"

Kathy Mattea, Musician

"It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section"

Mel Torme, Musician

"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books"

Travis Barker, Musician

"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way"

Tracy Kidder, Author

"It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

"One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto"

Susie Bright, Writer

"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else"

Sharon Olds, Poet

"I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home"

Poppy Z. Brite, Author

"A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years"

Poppy Z. Brite, Author

"I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment"

Linda Tripp, Celebrity

"We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage"

Mordecai Richler, Novelist

"I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes"

Kathryn Stockett, Novelist

"I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody"

Joanna Lumley, Actress

"But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other"

Lawrence Kasdan, Producer

"And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it"

Lawrence Kasdan, Producer

"The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings"

Julius Wellhausen, Educator

"There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good"

Scotty Moore, Musician

"You know, I'm pretty much an open book"

Rita Coolidge, Musician

"Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it"

Johann G. Hamann

"A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways"

Joan Blades, Businessman

"A book might be written on the injustice of the just"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"I always want to write something better than the last book"

Tracy Kidder, Author

"Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others"

V. S. Naipaul, Novelist

"I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me"

Samuel West, Actor

"So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why"

John Fahey, Musician

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