Book Quotes
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Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?
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You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.
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In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.
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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!
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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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When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.
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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.
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'Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my journey into the prison world. I'm not using myself as any kind of narrative link.
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Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.
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I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful.
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The word book acted as a transient stimulus...
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I stay in contact with kids, and that is a lot of fun for me, not only to get their letters but to meet them in schools and see that the books really have engaged their hearts and imaginations. That's what makes it so worthwhile.
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I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
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I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen some day.
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I used to take 'Visions of Cody' by Jack Kerouac on tour all the time. I don't really love Kerouac, but that book, you could just open at any page and find something incredible for that day.
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I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.
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I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.
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It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
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Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
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For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures.
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I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
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In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!
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I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.
