Book Quotes

It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.'

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; "you should really consider this".

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

What you don't know would make a great book.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.

What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.

One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.