Quotes of: Comic-books Keyword

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

Michael Cunningham

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

Stephen Rea

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

William Landay

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

Ali Smith

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

Chris Van Allsburg

Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house strewn with rubbish.

Craig Brown

Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.

Carmen Agra Deedy

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

Cecily von Ziegesar

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.

David Thewlis

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!

Erin Duffy

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

Haruki Murakami

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and ...

Jane Goodall

Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

Joel McHale

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

Katherine Paterson

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

Robert Gottlieb

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

Robert Kirkman

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

Sara Shepard

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Truman Capote

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

Michael Morpurgo

In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love.

Sarah MacLean