Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.
I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'
I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
All of marketing consists in creating relationships. Real relationships: friends, lovers, partners, warriors, fans.
It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.
I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.
I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.
I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the character.
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience
Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.
A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!
I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.
An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.
I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.
Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.
I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
When you have five little kids, you're not going to open Mindy Kaling's latest book. You're playing with your kids.