Book Quotes
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Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.
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If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.
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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
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I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course.
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I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
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The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.
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It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.
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My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.
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The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting, added much to the new culture of individualism. (p. 233)
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book.
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I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.
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This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.
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I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come.
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Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.
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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
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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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What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?
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No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.
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Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.
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I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
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Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
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I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.
