Book Quotes
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I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of this or that political idea. At the same time I want to show a kind of rebellion and transgression, something further.
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The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions. It remains the most published and most read book in the world of literature.
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And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.
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The death panel issue arose with Tom Daschle, who was originally going to be the Health Czar. Daschle became enamored with the British system and wrote a book about health care, which influenced President Barack Obama.
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To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.
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I actually really wish I had written 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying' as an unreliably narrated novel that is also a self-help book.
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I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
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You never want to be the worst bowler of the group-because then everyone treats you like you have cancer. "You can do it! We're praying for you." The advice starts. "Use a heavier ball." "Keep your arm straight." "You should get a vasectomy." If you're really bad at bowling like me, they'll ask if want the bumpers up. Not that bowling is that complex anyway. "You want the bumpers? We can get rid of the pins. Why don't you take this coloring book and sit in the corner?"
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
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In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.
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Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.
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If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.
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We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
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You kiss by th' book.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world.
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John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
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Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.
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I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
