Book Quotes

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

I told my whole life story in my book.

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.