The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost... →
Diane Setterfield
I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff, puff up. That would be a lot of fun.
Matthew Settle
I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr. Seuss
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want... →
Chloe Sevigny
It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I... →
Ben Shahn
Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our... →
Ravi Shankar
I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write... →
Samantha Shannon
I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote... →