Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
John le Carre
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
Jonathan Carroll
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
Lewis Carroll
In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.
Kit Carson
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Angela Carter