Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: It should have been me that got hit. Shepherd Book: The thought... had crossed my mind.
Shepherd Book: It's not your way, Mal. Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: I have a way? Is that better than a plan?
Lieutenant Ed Traxler: I can hear it now. He's going to be called the goddamned phone book killer.
John Book: How do I look - I mean, do I look Amish? Rachel Lapp: [nods] You look plain.
Daniel Hochleitner: They say you are a carpenter. John Book: Yeah. Daniel Hochleitner: Well,we can always use a good one.
John Book: If we'd made love last night I'd have to stay. Or you'd have to leave.
I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.
I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.
All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'
I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.
You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.
Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive.
I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it.
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.
