Book Quotes - page 80

When I decided to write a novel, I had two full time jobs and three children under the age of six, so I don't want anyone telling me they don't have time to write a book, but I learned to work in the middle of the night, and I still do that... (Diana Gabaldon)
I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write-with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign. View quote
Loretta Lynn
ALL religions have preserved the remembrance of a primitive book, written in hieroglyphs by the sages of the earliest epoch of the world. [...] The tradition in question rests altogether on the one dogma of Magic: the visible is for us the proportional measure of the invisible. View quote
Eliphas Levi
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent. View quote
Darrell Hammond
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. View quote
Frances Hodgson Burnett
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Nobody ever outgrows scripture the Book widens and deepens with our years. (Charles Spurgeon)
I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter. View quote
Ben Nicholson
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. View quote
Barbara Ehrenreich
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. View quote
Anne Lamott
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations. View quote
Ralph Fiennes
I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers. View quote
Lauren Hutton
One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library. View quote
Richelle Mead
Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book. View quote
Richelle Mead
Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language. View quote
Richelle Mead
The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, 'You know what? Here we go, this person just died, end of book.' And with the end of the series, you're very conscious of all the plotlines that were left hanging. There's a balance there to wrap those up but still leave it exciting. View quote
Richelle Mead
Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out. (Richelle Mead)
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work. View quote
Maggie Stiefvater
I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. That was my experience as a child. 'Children of Blood and Bone' is a chance to address that. To say you are seen. View quote
Tomi Adeyemi
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell. View quote
Mads Mikkelsen
Times have changed since the Good Book was written, and you can't hold with a purely Fundamentalist approach in complex times. View quote
Roger Zelazny