Book Quotes

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

People tell me they laughed hard enough to wake their spouses, that they've given away numerous copies to friends, and that it's the one Trek book they'll give to people they wouldn't expect to like others.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

I'm a pretty open book.

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.

I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly.

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

The age of the book is almost gone.

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?