Book Quotes - Page 30

• I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.

  Uwem Akpan

  Kissing, Want, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Thinking, Finishing, Way

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

  Kadir Nelson

  Hero, Character, Kids

  "Kadir Nelson: In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks.net interview at California studio in San Diego County, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

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• For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures, you should be able to tell what the story is about without having to read a word of text. That's what I think I brought from doing artwork for film to doing artwork for books.

  Kadir Nelson

  Thinking, Silent Films, Looks

  "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

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• What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself.

  Kadir Nelson

  Art, Thinking, People

  "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

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• The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Nice, Worry, Syntax

  Interview with Scott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.

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• Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

  Ethan Canin

  Writing, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

  Ethan Canin

  Smart, World, Publicity

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

  Ethan Canin

  Art, Hate, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

  Ethan Canin

  Couple, Writing, Years

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

  Ethan Canin

  Years, People, Lazy

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in that way for long. That is why the gospel that has been used by the oppressors is the same gospel that liberated the oppressed: They were reading the same book. Something in the DNA of Christian faith and in the Bible agitates against that kind of misuse.

  Allan Boesak

  Christian, Believe, Reading

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• From my earliest memories I was fascinated by animals. I would explore my backyard for insects and gaze at anthills until my elbows became sore. When I was 8, my mother bought me a book of North American birds and I've been keen on birdwatching since.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Mother, Memories, Animal

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• When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.

  Thomas Jones

  Dream, Years, People

  "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.

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• Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle.

  Tomie dePaola

  Art, People, Pieces

  Source: www.thechildrensbookreview.com

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• Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

  Bob Hartley

  Class, Grandfather, Library

  Source: www.braddockavenuebooks.com

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• The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.

  Gabriel Ba

  Character, Reader, Knows

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.

  Gabriel Ba

  Careers, Germany, Brazil

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• There are many readers of the book, who don't know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one author. It doesn't matter, if you can't make the reader dive into the story and surround him with that environment and those characters. That's an experience that lasts longer than figuring out who did what. I think that's what makes our working relationship better, it helps us to make a book that feels unique and not like different voices.

  Gabriel Ba

  Character, Artist, Unique

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

  Carl Deuker

  Mind, Complacency, Danger

  Source: www.sjboysread.org

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• What a person loves at 20 may seem stupid at 35. That doesn't mean the book was stupid, it means that the time when it spoke to the reader is past. So . . . I'm cautious about rereading favorite books. I hate to spoil the good feelings they created. Keeping the good feelings is more important than rereading the book. Moving on is a good thing.

  Carl Deuker

  Hate, Stupid, Moving

  Source: www.sjboysread.org

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• I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on. Many times when I get inspiration for my work, it's from something in one of these books or TV shows, or perhaps some newspaper article about a specific case.

  Scott Heim

  Inspiration, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• To me, nothing tastes more like summer than peach pie. I began collecting pie recipes from friends and family while I was still working on my first draft. As the recipes poured in, it was fun to try to match the pies to the characters in the book.

  Sarah Weeks

  Summer, Fun, Character

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• The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one thing, most of my picture books rhyme. Also, when I write a picture book I'm always thinking about the role the pictures will play in the telling of the story. It can take me several months to write a picture book, but it takes me several years to write a novel.

  Sarah Weeks

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.

  Mary Kay Andrews

  Jobs, Children, Home

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