Book Quotes

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages. He's fantastic.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it.

I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

A book is the only immortality.

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.