Book Quotes

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another.

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.