Book Quotes

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home.

It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another.