Book Quotes
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My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
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What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from hand to hand and lasts a lot longer than an electronic reader.
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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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Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
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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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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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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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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
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No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
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We would only multiply the number of victims. Our duty is to strengthen the state and defend the people, why, then, should we publish your book.
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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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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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The first black girl book I fell in love with was most likely 'Please, Puppy, Please' by Spike Lee and Tonya Lee.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
