Book Quotes - Page 31

• I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you square between the eyeballs and you know that's the artist for the story.

  William Katt

  Artist, Squares, Stories

  Source: comicsand.blogspot.com

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• As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in different forms and shapes. I don't know if I'm any good at it I just really go for it and I'm very prolific book wise only because I own the company. No one tells me 'no' around here.

  Henry Rollins

  Wise, Writing, Different

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• My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something that I liked because I could do it alone and I was alone a lot of the time with my mother working the hours she did. Books became my friends very early on.

  Henry Rollins

  Mother, Reading, School

  "#tbt An Interview with Henry Rollins". Interview with Eric Stein, www.brothersdepaul.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Light, Doors

  Source: w3.fiu.edu

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• That's the only interaction I have with people, those talking shows. Most of the people in my phone book are artists, management, producers, engineers. I don't ever call people with, "Hi! How are you?" I say, "How are you? Do you have that 16/30 ready? When do you want me to come into the studio?" That's what I do.

  Henry Rollins

  Artist, Phones, Talking

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

  Henry Rollins

  Want, Documentaries, Knows

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.

  Woody Allen

  Religious, Teaching, Law

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.

  Josh Hutcherson

  People, Mind, Please

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• Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.

  John Waters

  New York, Character, Times Have Changed

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they want you to do, to make it for a million dollars. I did that. I don't need a lot, but I need what I used to get, and they don't give you that anymore.

  John Waters

  Writing, Giving, Dollars

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that "I've got to do one thing before I die." I did it.

  John Waters

  Tragic, Print, Audience

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• A book is a better way to develop a complicated idea, or to tell a big story and to show how ideas weave in and out of each other, which is something that comes up a lot in happiness because all these ideas are interconnected.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Ideas, Stories, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A blog is something that, everyday there's a new thing and that's part of the fun of it, you're just constantly moving forward. A book really gives you more time to reflect and think hard on things very, very deep.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Fun, Moving Forward, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't listen to a huge amount of music generally. Partly because you've sat in a studio for 10 hours and then when you come home you just want to read a book, and listen to the sound of your central heating system.

  Herbert

  Home, Sound, Want

  Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.

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• People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or the therapy that meant so much. It was more the fact that someone committed himself or herself to me. They were really interested in my life; they wanted to know what I was doing; they followed me; they dared to confront and challenge me.

  Henri Nouwen

  People, Challenges, Important

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• You just have to work, we all have to work really hard to take care of ourselves and feed ourselves good information, just like we feed ourselves good food. Feed ourselves good books and good messaging and the things that make us feel like we can be connected with ourselves and others in a deeper way.

  Lena Dunham

  Care, Information, Way

  Interview with Allison Glock, www.espn.com. September 21, 2015.

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• The way that the stories go in the Snicket books is just the way stories naturally go to me. They're full of misery, and yet the misery ends up being slightly hilarious. And in terms of the warnings on the back of the books, that really started as an honest assessment of their marketability.

  Daniel Handler

  Assessment, Stories, Warning

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary that will drive people to these books." And it took forever. I couldn't think of a thing to say. I looked at the back of other children's books that were full of giddy praise and corny rhetorical questions, you know, "Will she have a better time at summer camp than she thinks?" "How will she escape from the troll's dungeon?" All these terrible, terrible summaries of books, and I just couldn't.

  Daniel Handler

  Summer, Children, Writing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.

  Daniel Handler

  Editors, Assessment, Psychology

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive to people... I find such people sort of charming, even though they usually don't like me.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Would Be, Charming

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some restrictions, so certain things will never pop up in a Snicket book. But I didn't know anything about writing for children when I started - this is the theme of naïveté creeping up on us once more - and I sort of still don't, and I'm happy that adults are reading them as well as children.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Thinking, Missing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of Unfortunate Events, there probably could have been more of the stage-y irony that is in the books. But I was just interested to see what people would do with it, and worrying that Brad Silberling wouldn't do what I had in mind.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.

  Daniel Handler

  Reading, Dark, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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