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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
— Bell Hooks
I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.
— Stephen Hawking
I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.
— T. J. Stiles
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.
— Neil Gaiman
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
— Angela Carter
As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher.
— W. Terry Whalin
I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.
— Fred D'Aguiar
I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.
— China Mieville
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.
— Walter Mosley
Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.
— Nick Harkaway
When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Getting an idea is not enough.
But when you get two ideas, and they collide and have a bastard love child, that's when true stories are born. — Johan M. Dahlgren
But when you get two ideas, and they collide and have a bastard love child, that's when true stories are born. — Johan M. Dahlgren
I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.
— Kathy Mattea
It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.
— Louis L'Amour
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
— Louis L'Amour
I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
How many of you knew what the Thomas A Swift Electric Rifle was? An idea in the book years ago, and now who hasn't heard of a T.A.S.E.R.
— Neil Leckman
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
— Jackie Collins
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
— Seth Godin
So, what happened next will have to go down in my book of Bad Decisions, planted firmly in the chapter entitled, I have no idea what I was thinking
— Paul Feig
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
— Walter Kaufmann
Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.
— Nick Hornby
It all goes back to this idea of ownership again. Once I published that book and my words became a commodity, something broke between us.
— Lily King
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
— Nick Hornby
Think of yourself as a detective looking for clues to a book's general theme or idea, alert for anything that will make it clearer.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Each book first begins with a little idea.
— Dick Bruna
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
— Ken Thompson
I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
— Garth Stein
Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.
— Chad Harbach
If summer was a book then I was going to write something beautiful in it. In my own handwriting. But I had no idea what to write.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
— Bill Gates
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
— Marcus Buckingham
So, how bad of an idea is it to go there? On a scale of cooking-whithout-a-shirt to being-an-evil-priest-in-an-Alexandre-Dumas-book?
— Michael R. Underwood
I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.
— Ed Emberley
In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
— Alix Kates Shulman
I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.
— Eula Biss
Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could be like that, I had no idea.
— Jill Mansell
I have an idea for a new book. It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?
— Annie Barrows
I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book
— Sylvain Tesson
When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.
— Jon Krakauer
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
— Chris Van Allsburg
Still, I strongly resisted the idea of offering up my past in a book, a past that left me feeling exposed, even slightly ashamed.
— Barack Obama
Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.
— Jason Aaron
I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
— Aaron Stanford
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
— William Peter Blatty
Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.
— Book Of Eli Movie
The girl I'd been just an hour ago was gone; she'd been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now.
— Amy Hatvany
I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.
— Evangeline Lilly
The idea that only the educated are privileged is an illusion.
— A.R. Bremsley
This is no way to treat a book," he said. "Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no idea of how to treat them.
— Terry Pratchett
The idea to write this book hit me like a bad analogy.
— Special Snowflake
Sometimes you have no idea what you are you doing, but you just do it anyways. And that can be a good thing
— Anita Babic
Rather tiring to a person whose idea of outdoor activity was taking her book outside to read. "All
— Kristan Higgins
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
— Carl Hiaasen
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
— Barbara Mertz
I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.
— Greg Behrendt
Our original idea was to write a book titled Fifty Shades of the Hunger Games, by J.K. Rowling with Stephen King: A John Grisham Novel.
— Dave Barry
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
— Rachel Kushner
I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.
— Lenny Kravitz
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
— Yann Martel
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book ... I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.
— Groucho Marx
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Do you have any idea how badly I want to pick you up and carry you into my bedroom and make love to you?
— Samantha Chase
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
— Tom Peters
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.
— Lu Xun
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
— Iris Murdoch
When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.
— Jim Butcher
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'
— John Bolton
My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.
— Jessa Crispin
How could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what was milling around in his head?
— Khaled Hosseini
The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
— Scott Westerfeld
Madoc has no idea who he is.
— Penelope Douglas