Book Quotes

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy.

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.'

When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

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.

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!