Certainly in the case of ‘Kill Your Friends,’ a book I wrote more than 10 years ago, I routinely meet interviewers who appear to know the book better than I do. But still, you have to talk about it. – John Niven
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. – Joe Frazier
‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ is my first book, and it’s the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and ‘traditional’ writing, and that’s how ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ was born. – Jeff Kinney
When I began ‘Wicked’, I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that there should ever be a follow up, because the subtitle was ‘The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West’. She was dead and gone, as the book says, at the end. – Gregory Maguire
If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what’s worth saving about it. – Justin Cronin
Usually, if I can’t fall asleep, you will find me catching up on a good book or zoning out with an episode of ‘The Real Housewives.’ I always have a couple books on my bedside table in various stages of completion. – Ivanka Trump
Inside that book, it’s my life-all the places where I’m hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I’ve had to pray a lot! – June Carter Cash
With ‘Interpreter,’ I didn’t know it was ever going to be a book, that they were going to be published. I was writing them in a vacuum for the most part. They were my apprentice work. Then the stories happened to become a book. – Jhumpa Lahiri
I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn’t. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff. – Jane Smiley
When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that’s how I learned to play the guitar. – Johnny Depp
I never really approach any project or story thinking of themes first or what a certain character ‘represents.’ Maybe other writers do, but for me, it just starts with the characters and a certain emotion I want to convey. It usually isn’t until I get deeper into a book and look back a bit that I start to see the themes, etc. – Jeff Lemire
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. – James Larkin
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. – Harold Kushner
What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn’t yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, ‘Boring.’ Or, ‘I’m not ready for this.’ Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle. – Judy Blume
If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it. – John Updike
I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front ‘rough guide’. I thought: ‘Yeah’ she’s not a looker. – Jimmy Carr
The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies. – James Patterson
While we’re having all these debates about how the book is being destroyed by the Kindle, we have to remember that narrative will not be affected at all because it’s part of our makeup as a creature on this planet. – Jim Crace
I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I’m interesting. I have perspective about me. – Judy Garland
Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will take what she needs from the book and leave out other things. With adaptations, you never get the texture of the writing: it’s a different mode. – Jhumpa Lahiri
We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you’re reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that’s reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site. – Jay Chiat
Commercial books don’t even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn’t even find in the theater? – James Patterson
Once I found out that I was playing ‘Deathlok,’ I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there. – J. August Richards
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. – Isaac Barrow