Book Quotes
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People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.
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I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.
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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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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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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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The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off.
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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.
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Don't judge a book by its thickness either.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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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 wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.
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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
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I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.
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The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.
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One of my favorite movies is the old Depardieu film 'The Return Of Martin Guerre,' which is actually a true story and a book.
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I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
