Book Quotes

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's head.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.