Here’s the thing: If you don’t want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won’t. But you can’t say what other kids can read. – Judy Blume
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves. – Jesse James Garrett
It wasn’t conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants. – Jeffrey Eugenides
There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book. – Julius Streicher
Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people – a nicer book with nicer characters – but I just can’t. – John Burnside
I know the Bible pretty well. I’m not one of those guys who can immediately start quoting every book, but usually I know where to look to find certain themes. – John Darnielle
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ book. – Jack Canfield
I’m remembering one book that I wrote, ‘Fourth Grade Rats,’ that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year. – Jerry Spinelli
The difference is this: If you write a good book, it’ll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee. – John Sandford
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die. – Justin Cronin
I never wanted to write ‘Mamma Mia!’ or ‘The Book of Mormon’ – they’re not my thing, I don’t care about them. What I do is very different. – Jason Robert Brown
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. – Ian Hamilton Finlay
I think I’m a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book. – Jackie Collins
Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things. – Jim Crace
A book is a journey: It’s a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader’s experience of a book is going to be different. – John Darnielle
I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book ‘War is a Racket.’ – Jesse Ventura
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out. – Joan Collins
I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels. – Jane Green
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. – John Greenleaf Whittier
I don’t know whether we Church members fully appreciate the Book of Mormon, one of our sacred scriptures, as we really should. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals. – Julius Streicher
We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God’s lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book. – Ismail Haniyeh