Book Quotes

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

An art book is a museum without walls.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

Your love to me was like an unread book.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.