Quotes of: Book Keyword

I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.

Barry Corbin

I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.

Barry Corbin

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

Bernard Cornwell

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Beverly Cleary

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

Beverly Cleary

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Bikram Choudhury

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.

Burton Cummings

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Benjamin Disraeli

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Richard Powers

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

Rick Moody

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.

Sylvia Day

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

Sara Sheridan

Here in the realm of books she’s self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn’t have anywhere else.

Tim Tharp

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

Terri Windling

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Umberto Eco

You'll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You'll marry your degrees?

Love

All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape.

Life

I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like!

Life

Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.

Life

All events/actions create a potential energy that rotate around the doer until releases or neutralized. (From Circles of Reasoning book)

Life

People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?

Life