Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
Mark Haddon
GoodChildrenBookThinkBadBooks
A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, 'Wow.'
Frank Peretti
GoodPeopleBookDeepYouDone
I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.
Jay McShann
BookBluesPlayHimBehindJoe
You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.
Janet Malcolm
GreatBookSayingPresentYouKind
With a hardcover, you get two chances, a year apart, for the book to make an impact - often with a new cover featuring artfully crafted snippets of reviews, a new marketing campaign and maybe even a new publisher.
Christina Baker Kline
BookImpactYearYouMarketingNew
Like most new writers, I could only hope that one day one publisher might agree to publish one of my books; I couldn't imagine several publishers all wanting to buy the first book I'd written.
Emma Healey
HopeDayBookNewOne DayFirst
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou
GoodHabitChildBookReadingDeep
It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time.
William Moseley
TimeBookSeemsFilmComic Book
What interested me in doing 'Dragonball' was that it's a huge comic book series that has built a great fan base, and it's a great action movie!
Texas Battle
GreatMeActionBookDoingFan
Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to read, and they have plenty of things to work with. The Indian has no book. He cannot read.
Standing Bear
WorkBookFriendsThingsUsIndians
I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.
Toby Jones
ChildrenTrustWritingBookReading
So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.
Lauren Weisberger
LifeWorkFamilyGreatI AmBook
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
Michael Morpurgo
GoodMeBookKeyGood BookTook
The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.
Lenny Kravitz
FunnyPeopleBookGamesPassionate
I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.
Ben Horowitz
ManagementBookAdviceDietExercise
All I had when I began writing the first book was rather vague images conjured up by the notion of a man in a kilt, so essentially I began with Jamie, although I had no idea what his name was at the time.
Diana Gabaldon
TimeManWritingBookNameFirst
My own personal geek culture years were when I was much younger. I collected comic books up until a certain age. I wanted to be a comic book artist when I was younger.
Greg Mottola
AgeCultureBookArtistPersonalUp
Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.
Jenny Lawson
WorkBestBookHurtEndBetter
Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
Brooks Robinson
BookNowThreeYearsFiftyJust
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing.
Charlaine Harris
HopeWritingBookProcessLearnNew
And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
Michael Berryman
HistoryReligionWarEconomicsBook
My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.
Shelby Foote
SuccessGoodMeBookDownFollow
Teaching regularly has made me an even more adept reader, I think. The kind of teaching I do is more like editing than anything else. The kind of editing book editors used to do before lunch. The kind of editing I used to do as a radio documentary maker.
Paul Muldoon
MeLunchBookThinkKindEditing
For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my book. I would just check it out again and again. Every week. For a whole year. The object of my fourth-grade filibuster was 'D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.'
Robin Sloan
SchoolBookLibraryWeekYearDown
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about Book