Book Quotes

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

I'm not a comic book guy at all.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.

Why by a book when you can join a library.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

An art book is a museum without walls.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.'

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.