Tevye: As the good book says, if you spit in the air, it lands in your face.
Book Lady: Okay, young man. That'll be twenty five cents. Lesra: 25 cent? Must not be much of a book.
[Outmaneuvering Rommel] Patton: [referring to Rommel's book, 'Infantry Attacks' or 'Infanterie greift an'] Rommel... you magnificent bastard, *I read your book*!
[Book moves to intervene against some locals harassing the Amish] Eli Lapp: It's not our way. John Book: It's my way.
I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.
I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...
The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.
These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.
A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends.
Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really good events. I like to read the ones that are based on both.
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....
