Book Quotes
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Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
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A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain kind of music that I start hearing. It's the music of the language, but it's also the music of the story. I have to live with that music for a while before I can put any words on the page. I think that's because I have to get my body as much as my mind accustomed to the music of writing that particular book. It really is a mysterious feeling.
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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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It is a book that challenges the reader to action, and in taking that action, to greater service to themselves, their families, their communities, and their Maker.
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When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
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Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
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My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a book.
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One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.
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You're never alone when you're reading a book.
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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
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Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.
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I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.
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I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.
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Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.
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I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.
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Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life.
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I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
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I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a question of "this is written by someone with an MFA, and this isn't." I challenge anyone to identify a book in that way. It's totally impossible.
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Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.
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For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.
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You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
