Book Quotes

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.

I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

I always want to write something better than the last book.

Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.