Book Quotes

• It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.

  

  Lauren Myracle
  • People
  • Job
  • Book

• Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that will bring him to the past. His book is called 'In Search of Lost Time,' and he does it through the senses. He does it through smell. He does it through feeling. He does it through texture. It is all physically driven, that language.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Time
  • Past
  • Feeling

• Before I went off to Rutgers, I worked in a comic book shop in my hometown. At night, I would work on some comic stories, and after a while, I developed an idea for a weird little superhero spoof comic called 'Cement Shooz.'

  

  Christopher McCulloch
  • Work
  • Night
  • Weird

• At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences.

  

  Cynthia Kadohata
  • Time
  • Writing
  • She

• There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I'd gotten sunburned.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Moving

• One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Life
  • Book

• I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

  

  Brad Delp Boston
  • Book
  • Wonder

• As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Children
  • Book
  • Picture

• As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

  

  Buchi Emecheta
  • Different
  • Money
  • Book

• What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Book
  • Transport

• India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'

  

  Neel Mukherjee
  • Good
  • Book
  • Food

• Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Interest
  • Subjects
  • Shamanism

• If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show - I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there's also no life to it. I'm personally not a fan of that.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Life
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Book
  • Tired

• The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.

  

  Cherie Carter-Scott
  • Community
  • Suffering
  • Stress

• I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Life
  • Useful
  • Piking up

• In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.

  

  John Fusco
  • Great
  • Book
  • Freedom

• Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

  

  Humphrey Carpenter
  • Lying
  • Autobiography
  • Respectable

• A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

  

  Margaret Wise Brown
  • Good
  • Picture
  • Storytelling

• I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Trying
  • War
  • Fun

• I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Wonder

• Literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas popular fiction, I tell them, is meant primarily as a means of escape, one way or another, from this present life, a kind of book equivalent of comfort food, literary fiction confronts us with who we are and makes us look deeply at the human condition.

  

  Bret Lott
  • Character
  • Escape
  • Human Condition

• I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Disaster

• Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

  

  Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
  • History
  • Science
  • Determination

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