Book Quotes

• A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Missing

• One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if you throw a lot away, the good stuff always comes back; nothing is lost.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Good
  • Money
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Weird

• There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone survivor.' He's a national hero; he's very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it's something I'd love to explore.

  

  Jared Padalecki
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Movie

• Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Model
  • Dog
  • Role Model

• No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

  

  Elizabeth Kostova
  • Book
  • Purpose

• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Think

• Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Power
  • Words
  • Wisdom

• I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Book
  • Style
  • Clear

• 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.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Business
  • Book
  • Mysterious

• Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Life
  • Book

• Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Work
  • Book
  • Chef

• I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Know

• The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Good
  • Book

• I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have a new book out, but basically, I've got my nose to the grindstone and I'm doing what I'm supposed to do in life, which is make stories.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Fun

• One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing - being a data bank - and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Book
  • War
  • Peace

• Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.

  

  Tad R. Callister
  • Together
  • Bible
  • Doctrine

• When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

  

  Daniel Johnston
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Great
  • Control

• I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Book
  • Think
  • Food

• Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Encouragement

• Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Useful

• Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Different
  • Book

• I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Writing
  • Day
  • End

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