Book Quotes

"With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don't bump into on the street and share my story"

"I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book"

"I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species"

George C. Williams, Scientist

"It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank"

Simon Travaglia, Author

"There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die"

Sharon Olds, Poet

"Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue"

Walter Martin, Clergyman

"I will say I am the sum of my books"

V. S. Naipaul, Novelist

"I have read your book and much like it"

Moses Hadas, Writer

"It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma"

Jef I. Richards, Professor

"You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think"

Miranda Otto, Actress

"You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book"

Matthew Vaughn, Producer

"I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books"

Matthew Vaughn, Producer

"I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans"

Martin C. Smith

"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy"

Edward P. Morgan, Journalist

"It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you"

Mike Davidson

"I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it"

Mac Davis, Musician

"You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it"

Les Claypool, Musician

"Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued"

Joseph Wambaugh, Writer

"And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject"

David Gest, Celebrity

"The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western"

Orhan Pamuk, Novelist

"What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film"

Tilda Swinton, Actress

"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters"

Nora Ephron, Author

"My first book was the book that changed my life"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample"

Janice Dickinson, Model

"And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have"

Irwin Shaw, Novelist

"There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things"

Jane Asher, Actress

"Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book"

Mickey Spillane, Author

"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book"

Mickey Spillane, Author

"There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility"

Jonathan Krohn, Author

"I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books"

Kevin Bacon, Actor

"I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me"

Susie Bright, Writer

"If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail"

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Politician

"When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella"

Theodore White, Journalist

"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water"

Marilyn French, Author

"Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them"

Nicholas Meyer, Writer

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