Book Quotes
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There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - 'Swan Song' is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.
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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
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President Benson's mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought an added appreciation of this sacred scripture to all who followed his direction.
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I don't write the same book twice.
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How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.
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I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.
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The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
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When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
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I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
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If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I use piano to convert my poems.
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There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world.
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A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.
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I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'
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Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.
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I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas.
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I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.
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The way we work at Pixar is we write the script, but then we quickly move on into story reel, which is basically like a comic-book version of the film. And then we do our own dialogue and music and sound effects, all in an effort to be able to basically sit in the theater and watch the movie before we shoot it, essentially.
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You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.
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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
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People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.
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Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit.
Colson Whitehead -
I work and work and if I have a surplus I book a holiday.
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
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My mouth ain't no prayer book.
