Book Quotes

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.