I think some people wished I’d kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I’m doing it completely intellectually. – Helen Garner
I’ve probably had my day in the sun. I think I’ve influenced a lot of comic book writers. – Harvey Pekar
It’s a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who’s in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I’m waiting for that first question. – Hugh Leonard
There comes a point in nearly every book event I’ve done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd. – Hanna Rosin
The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people. – Hamid Karzai
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. – Herman Kahn
Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn’t know, she would always look it up in the dictionary. – Geraldine McCaughrean
I got Elliott Smith’s photography book as a gift before. The publisher of that book’s logo were glasses, and those glasses came to my mind when I was thinking of having a tattoo. – Go Ah-sung
I can always track my career by the children – I started writing right after the 14-year-old was born, and sold my first book just in time to pay for the birth of the 12-year-old. – Heather Graham Pozzessere
At a certain point in the writing of any book, you become absolutely certain that it’s terrible and is only getting more terrible with every word you write. This is normal. You just have to keep going, push your way through, and have faith that, through practice and experience and determination, you will get to the end. – Greg van Eekhout
If ‘Mystery Train’ is my Nixon book and ‘Lipstick Traces’ my Reagan book, ‘Invisible Republic’ is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he’d done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end. – Greil Marcus
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. – Heinrich Heine
We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word – process – suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy. – Hanya Yanagihara
Sometimes even when the book is over I don’t know who’s good and who’s bad. It’s really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white. – Harlan Coben
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. – Geoffrey Fisher
Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis. – Hilary Mantel
‘Would I mind if someone wrote a sequel to one of my books?’ I asked myself, and I decided that I wouldn’t, providing that the writer was respectful, had read my book first, and wasn’t drunk when doing it. – Geraldine McCaughrean
When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section. – Gardner Dozois
I was a real mess at school. I got a bit of a reputation for being the weird girl: the girl who’d go silent randomly and just kind of write down replies to people’s questions in a book. – Helen Oyeyemi
We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can’t open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you’re off limits. – Helen Thomas
My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read. – Hallie Ephron
Too often, teachers assume that they are introducing a book or concept to students for the first time. In fact, many units are repeated over the course of a student’s K-12 experience. – Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the ‘X-Men’ characters, for more than the action. I think that’s what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero. – Hugh Jackman
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. – Oscar Wilde
Nobody sits down and says, ‘Well, I’m going to write a bad book.’ They sit down to write a great book, but it doesn’t always turn out like that. The writer may do his best and still write a so-so book, and other times, it just flows easily. But I don’t know how you can control that. – Gilbert Morris
We didn’t sleep last week – we literally didn’t sleep – because we’ve been so busy with the book. – Hansie Cronje
I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got. – Heidi Klum