Book Book Quotes
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.
I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.
Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.
As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!
Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your heart. You get the tone, and the fingers will follow.
As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.
He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.
I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.
I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.