Book Quotes

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.

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.