Book Quotes
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.
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Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.
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If I get stuck doing comic-book films for the rest of my life, I'll be really happy.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.
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To me, the Quran is a research book.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?
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My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I found Slott's version of 'She-Hulk' first, and then I went back and looked up some of the older stuff because I liked it so much. And it was so good. It was perfect. It was my perfect comic book at the time that I found it.
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I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way.
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I've sent thousands of emails - the conversations in the book are just the success stories.
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I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
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Time is the currency - the highest valued currency we have now. And people giving you their time is so incredible. They don't have to like your book, either. That's a totally separate gift.
