Book Quotes
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There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.
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Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
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I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
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I can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it just came from such a very, In The Body of the Worldvery physical... it just came from my body. I don't know how to explain it better than that. I guess my head was transmitting it. It was a very, very physical experience writing this book.
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Authenticity, for me, was important, because it made the reader feel ‘This is real This is not just a comic book
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.
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The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
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I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.
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you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.
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I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.
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Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.
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The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.
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I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.
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I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.
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A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.
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In the digital age, there is a new rule book for romance.
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I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or writing a book, but I'm concerned about our spiritual well-being as a human race. I want to impact people in a way that makes us all reach for our best.
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I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'
