Book Quotes

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Everybody writes a book too many.

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured.

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.