Book Quotes

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to play. The rest of the time he's very much into Katniss, and for that to get turned around and to play it the other way, that's going to be very exciting.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

It's a very good historical book about history.

You don't write a book to show off.

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.