Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.
You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.
Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.
If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.
Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being written.
Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.
Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.
The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.
The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.
You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.
Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light.
The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.
If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.
So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?
You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.
Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.
The book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.