Book Quotes
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My first book was an open letter to my three daughters.
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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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My hope in writing this book has been that enough people will choose to profit from that opportunity to make a difference.
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It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.
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I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.
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It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.
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The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought.
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…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.
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Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.
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As a traveler, I should probably count myself fortunate to be living in the jet age, and as an author, I know I am lucky to have a book tour at all.
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I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
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Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.
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We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.
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Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
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Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.
Elliott Erwitt -
I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them?
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My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.
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I've never read a comic book in my life.
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If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
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I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.
