Book Quotes

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

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!

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.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.

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.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.