Quotes of: Comic-books Keyword

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.

When I Was a Child I Read Books

He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.

Wickedly Charming

Books are portable companions. But so are midgets.

Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.

Willowtree A Bruce DelReno Mystery

And where are you going?" "I dunno," said the Spangled Boy. "I'm running from, not to." Book: Wet Magic, Chapter 5.

Wet Magic

. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

White Nights

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

The Words

When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.

The Wings of Hope: Survivor

Experience is an author’s most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought of it before, but that's how things are.

Witnessing

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.

The Works: Voltaire

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

The Waves

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?

Xazaqazax

I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.

You

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!

Zorba the Greek

I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years.

Mark Bridges

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

Alanis Morissette

'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange a...

Ben Macintyre

The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertaining...

Craig Brown

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

Daniel Goleman