Quotes of: Book Keyword

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

China Mieville

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

China Mieville

I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.

Christopher Moore

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

Christopher Nolan

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

Chaim Potok

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Christopher Paolini

I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.

Charlie Rowe

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

Carl Sandburg

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

Carl Sandburg

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.

Christian Slater

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

Curtis Sittenfeld

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Carl Sagan

I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.

Claire Tomalin

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

Colm Toibin

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

Corey Taylor

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

Craig Thompson

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946

Henri Matisse

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.

Harvey Pekar

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.

Harvey Pekar

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

Hanna Rosin

If a book isn’t at least somewhat polarizing, it didn’t say anything of value. [Blog entry - November 1, 2014]

Ilona Andrews