Book Quotes

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

It's a very good historical book about history.

You don't write a book to show off.

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense.