Book Quotes
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors.
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I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.
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You'll see this term in your book, if you've read the book. Don't comment.
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When I was your age, television was called books.
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While one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
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I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?
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I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.
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Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.
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Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.
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And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
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I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another.
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The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.
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Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face. "By S. Morgenstern. Great Florinese writer. The Princess Bride. He too came to America. S. Morgenstern. Dead now in New York. The English is his own. He spoke eight tongues." Here my father put down the book and held up all his fingers. "Eight. Once in Florin City...
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What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.
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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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To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.
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Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.
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That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.
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I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.
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When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never there before. I didn't feel it was my history particularly, coming from Northern Britain, being of Irish extraction, being a cradle Catholic. The image of England I grew up with felt somewhere else. There was an official England in postcards, but it wasn't one I had visited. But I decided to march onto the center ground and occupy it whether it was mine or not.
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This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.
