Book Quotes

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

Beware of the person of one book.

Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

You know, I'm pretty much an open book.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.'

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

We shot in a place called Asheville, which is like beautiful, beautiful forests. And then part of it we shot all the reaping stuff, which was just crazy - because the reaping in the book and in the script is such an emotional thing for everyone. It really did feel like that when we were shooting it.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.