A Book Quotes

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.

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

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.

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

An unread book does nobody any good

Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.

Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade

I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.

Behold, I make all things new.

The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.