#book

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#book #darkness #did #heart #i

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community. ↗

— Hansie Cronje

#book #community #cricket #hard #make

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #contempt #desire #even #glory

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet. ↗

— Mary Higgins Clark

#bare feet #book #feet #first #four

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#companions #corrupted #liable

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#could #court #ghetto #guided #heart

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy. ↗

— John Cleese

#comedy #history #i #the history of #want

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#comic #comic strip #films #go #i

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#even #had #i #million #online

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing. ↗