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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

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 like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre. — China Mieville

I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book. — Jane Gardam

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' — Bill Gates

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. — Mortimer Adler

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

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

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

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 enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book. — Evangeline Lilly

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. — Yann Martel

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

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 like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book. — Greg Behrendt

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page. — Barbara Mertz

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

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

The idea to write this book hit me like a bad analogy. — Special Snowflake

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 that only the educated are privileged is an illusion. — A.R. Bremsley

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

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 like the idea of someone else's love safely sealed in a song or a book. — Henry Rollins

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea. — William Peter Blatty

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book. — Hilary Duff

This idea was first coined by Charles Handy in his book The Age of Unreason — Jeff Goins

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind. — Scott Westerfeld

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear. — Deb Caletti

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

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. — Iris Murdoch