Book Quotes
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I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to guide his/her child through the reading of every book imaginable. Censorship of any form punishes curiosity.
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I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.
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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
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I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.'
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The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.
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Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.
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I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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His eyes measured the little chamber. How two people could survive in so small a space was as difficult to grasp as the conventions in contract bridge. Perhaps there was some simple key that would solve the problem, and he would have the subject of another book.
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We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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I'm crazy about Diane Von Furstenberg. It's a relationship that's very different; I don't see Diane a lot. So when I saw the article in New York magazine she looked so beautiful and it was talking about her work, too. She set up the interview and it was happening. That's different than someone writing a book about you who you've never met.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
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Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.
