Quotes About Book

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day.

I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.

The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this moment when you think you can't possibly labour for another moment, and that, paradoxically, is when you have to push hardest.

Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book.

My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where when somebody finishes reading the book, he or she emerges from it with a sense of having lived in the past.

I have been in five Harry Potter films and never read a 'Harry Potter' book. If you are an actor, all you have is the script you are given. If you read the book, you might get disappointed about what's been left out.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

I've sent thousands of emails - the conversations in the book are just the success stories.

I wrote a best-selling book, and if you don't believe me, you can come into my basement; I'll show you every copy.

For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.

'The Exile' covers approximately the first third of 'Outlander'.

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

It makes it easier to adapt a book that is popular with kids because of how excited they are about the project; you don't get the criticisms you would get with other projects.

It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.