Book Quotes

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another.

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

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.