Book Quotes

• Deathstroke is a villain. Don't come to the book with any expectations that he will, in any way or sense or form, act heroically. He's a bad guy, and that's the fun of it.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Guy

• My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • History
  • Man
  • Dad

• Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Blessed

• I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

  

  Colleen Haskell
  • Children
  • Book
  • Design

• When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

  

  Phylicia Rashad
  • Time
  • Women
  • Together

• It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Writing
  • Live
  • School

• I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Book
  • Story
  • Stage

• A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Lost
  • College
  • End

• I had quite a bit of experience doing things that had been adapted from a book and playing real-life characters and playing the younger version of actors. That's kind of my thing.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • Life
  • Real
  • Experience

• The main issue when it comes to hiring someone from Asia is the language barrier. It's difficult to book someone when they don't speak the language and they can't deliver the lines or even speak to the director. But in terms of Asian-American actresses, we all speak it fluently!

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Book
  • American

• My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the U.K. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

  

  Kathy Reichs
  • Book

• I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They're just not really that, yet. There's all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Up
  • Book

• Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Writing
  • Today

• The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man would have to be someone I'd like to have dinner with.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Long
  • Character
  • Reading

• A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Should
  • Answers
  • Novel

• How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Book
  • Want
  • Decision

• Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • You
  • Running
  • Event

• A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Question
  • Demand
  • Assumption

• I have written a book with Jacob Laksin about universities called One Party Classroom. Among other things, the title highlights the fact that so-called liberals have purged American faculties of conservative voices. It has been the most successful witch-hunt in American history.

  

  David Horowitz
  • American
  • History
  • Party

• The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Book
  • Shoes

• Your love to me was like an unread book.

  

  Countee Cullen
  • Book

• In my book, 'Let Patients Help,' one chapter is titled 'Let patients vote on what's worth the cost.' That's sensible, right? In other industries, consumer preference is a key determinant in prices.

  

  Dave deBronkart
  • Book
  • Help

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