Quotes of: Comic-books Keyword

There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

Irwin Redlener

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Irwin Shaw

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

Jami Attenberg

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

Jeffrey Archer

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

James A. Baldwin

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Jean de la Bruyere

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

John Bradshaw

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

Julie Burchill

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

Jesse Lee Bennett

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

Jack Canfield

I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.

Jilly Cooper

I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.

Jimmy Carr

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

John le Carre

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

John le Carre

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

Jonathan Carroll

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

David Sedaris

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

David Sedaris

Being a bestseller doesnt mean they wrote a great book. Just means they knew a lot of people who would buy it.

David A. Santos

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

Daniel Woodrell

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

David Walliams

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the during the first eight pages.

David Foster Wallace