Book Quotes
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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I thought a book on miracles might be a great idea, but just because it's a great idea doesn't mean I'm supposed to do it. But my editor persisted, and eventually I thought, 'He's right. I should write this book.'
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I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
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Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and throwing it down on paper is unbelievably cathartic.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
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Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger. Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
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The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they’re all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
