Quotes of: Book Keyword

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

Benny Green

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

Berry Gordy

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

bell hooks

People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.

Bill Irwin

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

Bill James

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

Barbara Kingsolver

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

Ben Katchor

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

Barbara Mertz

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

Brandon Mull

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

Birdy

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.

Brenda Sutton Rose

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.

Ben Schott

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Barbara Tuchman

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.

Brad Thor

I think what really clicked for me was when I started booking commercials as a dancer... just being on set and seeing every element of production, it was magic to me.

Bree Turner

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.

Binyavanga Wainaina

My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.

Burt Ward

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

Bill Watterson

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Chris Van Allsburg