Book Quotes

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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

I always want to write something better than the last book.

Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

The number of vacations me and my husband have canceled... if you really want a job, book a non-refundable vacation. But obviously we're blessed too.

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.