Book Quotes

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

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.

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

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages. He's fantastic.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.