Book Quotes
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Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.
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What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
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It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.
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The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.
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Giving in to your ego is one of the oldest stories in the showbiz book. But so is figuring out how to stay vivid.
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Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.
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Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S
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'We’re in danger of losing the ship generation.''I’m aware of the problems,' she said. '‘You can’t tell the boys from the girls, they have no respect for their elders, their user interfaces are garish and unwieldy, everybody is writing a book, and their music is just noise.’ Found scratched on a potsherd in Sumer.'
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My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'
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As a child, I had no interest in science whatsoever - then I started writing and recognized how relevant it was. My first book about science and medicine captured the world of organ transplantation in 1989 from the points of view of all of the participants - scientists, surgeons, social workers, organ recipients and even donor families.
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No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
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I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.
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Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.
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There is no radical or moderate Islam. There is only one Islam and that is the Islam from the Koran, the holy book. That is the Islam from Mohammed. There are no two sorts of Islam.
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You don't need to have kids to write a good book for kids. I don't want my kids to see themselves in my books. Their lives should be their lives.
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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
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I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.
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Of course there's pressure, and it's still there with every book. Each one is harder to write than the last, basically because you're always trying to write a better book. You won't always succeed, of course, but that has to be what you're shooting for.
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Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google alone, but Google's narrative worked to drive the entire story.
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You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
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I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them. What I do is very different.
