Book Quotes
-
He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.
-
..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
-
Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
-
School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.
-
My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.
-
I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.
-
I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter in the late '80s and thought, 'What a shame there has never been a decent book on Jean Harlow,' then thought, 'Why don't I write one myself?' being kind of an idiot and not having the slightest idea what I was getting myself into.
-
I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.
-
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
-
Beware of the person of one book.
-
My first book was the book that changed my life.
-
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
-
When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace.
-
Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
-
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
-
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
-
I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.
-
There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.
-
A good book written for children can be read by adults
-
All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
-
Finally, this book can — and should — be read as a story of growth from knowledge into wisdom, of intellectual and spiritual education.
-
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
-
Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in the books.
-
Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
