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