Book Quotes
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I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.
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When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing.
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To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.
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With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book of cosmology with this mission, we will write another chapter.
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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
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Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
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I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.
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I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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Nobody wants an ugly book.
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I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.
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One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.
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But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one – because it's blank. It says 'Your Hero's Photo Here,' and 'Your Hero's Story Here.'
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Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
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Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We'll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We'll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We'll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.
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This is a long book, not only in pages.
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I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes to nonfiction, because writing a book of investigative journalism is an expensive endeavor, and the system works best if you have publishers making bets on authors.
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If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.
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I always felt once it goes into movie land, the book belongs to someone else.
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'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.
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When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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Seamless, careful, by-the-book performance provides no evidence of what the spider's thinking about the fly enmeshed in its web.
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I had actually tested first with 'Young and Restless' for the role of Daisy. It came down to three of us, but I didn't book that job. A couple of weeks later, I was told that I had an audition for 'B&B.' I did two auditions, and they booked me. It was a short process, which I greatly appreciated!
