Book Quotes
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I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.
Nick Simmons
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Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.
Peter V. Brett
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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.
Ray Bradbury
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Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
Seneca the Younger
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I spent my life in the library reading books.
Michael Caine
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I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
Ray Bradbury
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What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.
Simon Sinek
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It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.
Nicholas G. Carr
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More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
Helen Keller
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. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an adaptation of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.
Laurie Anderson
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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
Gene Colan
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I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and the organizers invited me and it seemed silly not to go, especially for a relatively unknown first-time author. This is just not my cup of tea; the fewer such events I do on an annual basis, the happier I feel.
Evgeny Morozov
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I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.
Paul G. Tremblay
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I have written 5 books that address major figures in our culture: books on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Tupac Shakur, Marvin Gaye and Bill Cosby. But even in the books that take up major figures, I hope to provoke conversation, insight and understanding about these personalities by providing new, fresh and vital information and analysis about them.
Michael Eric Dyson
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I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.
Judy Blume
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Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
Michael Caine
