Book Quotes

"I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through"

Colleen Haskell, Celebrity

"I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories"

Tom T. Hall, Musician

"Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad"

Dexter S. King

"I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality"

Terence Stamp, Actor

"The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital"

Shmuel Y. Agnon

"MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance"

James Otis, Lawyer

"I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"I never really know the title of a book until it's finished"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt"

Mickey Spillane, Author

"Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more"

Austin Dobson, Celebrity

"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books"

Tom T. Hall, Musician

"I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear"

Anatoly Chubais, Politician

"I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them"

Ludwig Bemelmans, Author

"I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence"

Lee Child, Writer

"I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel"

Shmuel Y. Agnon

"To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment"

Sally Schneider, Writer

"Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?"

Brendan Gleeson, Actor

"I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them"

Laura Linney, Actress

"Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

"Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

"I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character"

Jason Wiles, Actor

"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?"

Fay Wray, Actress

"Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV"

Debra Messing, Actress

"That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there"

David Amram, Composer

"In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that"

Fay Wray, Actress

"My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader"

David McCullough, Historian

"Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project"

David McCullough, Historian

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