Book Quotes

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

"Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special"

"Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you"

Dick Schaap, Journalist

"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways"

Nick Hornby, Writer

"We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself"

Emily Watson, Actress

"I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism"

Ed Miliband, Politician

"Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere"

Jack Vance, Author

"I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do"

Jack Vance, Author

"In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc"

Edmund White, Novelist

"I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit"

Edmund White, Novelist

"At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

"If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders"

Mark Foley, Politician

"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book"

Chuck Jones, Director

"Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne"

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Author

"Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely"

Greg Egan, Scientist

"Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go"

Cornelia Funke, Author

"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman"

George Plimpton, Journalist

"In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'"

Emanuel Celler, Politician

"In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person"

Dawn Powell, Writer

"I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime"

Frank Oz, Actor

"Each book first begins with a little idea"

Dick Bruna, Artist

"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books"

Dick Bruna, Artist

"Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published"

Dick Bruna, Artist

"When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book"

David McCullough, Historian

"I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down"

David McCullough, Historian

"When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers"

David Amram, Composer

"Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn)"

John Podhoretz, Writer

"I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love"

Janine Turner, Actress

"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories"

Bobby McFerrin, Musician

"I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them"

Christopher Darden, Lawyer

"I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts"

Charles Van Doren, Celebrity

"Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books"

John Dingell, Politician

"When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page"

Brody Armstrong, Musician

"I have a children's book already out and my autobiography"

Della Reese, Musician

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