Book Quotes
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Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.
George R. R. Martin
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In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.
Jonathan Krohn
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I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and sucks their lifeblood, transforming as well as feeding off them.
Kim Newman
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Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Bertrand Russell
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I'm a pretty open book.
Emily VanCamp
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They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
William Glasser
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Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a writer writes can excite the imagination and the feelings of the reader, then that reader carries it around forever. Nothing is more vivid than good fiction.
Paul Auster
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Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.
Gene Cernan
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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.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
A Tribe Called Quest
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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
George Bernard Shaw
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Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.
Jim Crace
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In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book.
William P. Young
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I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.
Jeff Lemire
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I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.
Shane Carruth
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The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
Edmond Jabes
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Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories".
Iain Banks
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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.
Vladimir Nabokov
