Book Quotes

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

I told my whole life story in my book.

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.