Book Quotes

I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.

I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.

Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.

Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.

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.

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.