Book Quotes

I'm pretty much an open book.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

They have this big book called the "DSM-IV," you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

Every day I run into people who don't know what I do. And even after I explain it they still don't know what I do. So now I can just say, 'Pick up the Locas book!' And that tells them all.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.