Book Quotes

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.

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.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

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.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.

I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products.

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.