Book Quotes

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.