Book Quotes
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When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.
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This book has neither the virtue of irony nor deserves the sympathy reserved for the truly mad.
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It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over twenty-five thousand copies and it is surprising how many people's feelings are hurt, how many screwballs think their brain children have been stolen, and how many people feel that they have been portrayed in a manner calculated to bring infamy upon them.
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Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.
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If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.
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My progressive ideals are screaming in Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos book; what I believe. There is no muddying-up because of debate. You know exactly where I stand, because I put it down in the written word.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.
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My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.
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There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though.... This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently.
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So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?
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For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.
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She loved to return to the world of the book, a world in which people were willing to let go of everything in order to follow their passions.
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There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.
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We all take Mother's Day seriously and then it's like a month later, a bunch of kids get together and say, "I guess we should do this for the old man, too." Father Day's is weird. It's like celebrating Darth Vader's birthday. It's odd I think. Even the gifts we give dads. Like neckties, which are just like a silk noose. Or books. Would you ever want someone from another generation to give you a book?
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I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my ambition before I realized I couldn't keep characters looking the same from panel to panel.
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Which is the woman, which the child? The joyous laugh that opens doors, steals sugared moments from the shelf? Or the dreamer mixing metaphors with tears to make a book of self To read aloud in winter's rooms When summer's sounds have ceased to bloom?
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.
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The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse.
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A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.
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India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book.
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Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.
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Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.
