Book Quotes
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My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.
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Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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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.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
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I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
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For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
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I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
