Book Quotes

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

I always want to write something better than the last book.

Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.

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

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

A book that is shut is but a block.

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.