Book Quotes

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.

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.

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.