Book Quotes
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You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even if they don't know how to fix it, I always seem to find a way. 'Trust Your Eyes' is the best book I've written, and I don't know if I can do any better.
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But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.
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'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
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When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.
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If a writer I represent gets a bad or unfair review, I suffer. I'm upset and outraged and do everything I can to try and change that. But I would never do that on behalf of my own book because I wouldn't expect my writers to do that.
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I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.
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[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.
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I've always published a range of responses to my work in the letters section of my comic book.
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When I created Quirke, he was 6ft 6in and blond. But then a woman reader wrote to me and said, 'Why do you keep saying his hair is blond? It's not. It's brown.' I wrote back to her and told her that, of course, she was right. So I darkened his hair and now that he's being played by Gabriel Byrne; with each successive book he gets a bit smaller and smaller.
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I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'
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I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.
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Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.
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I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable.
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I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
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My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.
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Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.
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I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.
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Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.
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Each reader projects their own version of the experience inside their skull as they go along. It's probably true that no two people read exactly the same book.
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I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.
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I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.
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I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.
