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"In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy a book if he doesn't like the artwork. Once you buy it for the artwork, you hope that the story will also be good."
"I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it."
"In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away."
"The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books."
"The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected."
"It is impossible to do a movie exactly the way a comic book is written and drawn, just as it's impossible to do a movie exactly like a novel or exactly like anything else. When you go to different forms of media, you have to adapt."
"I feel I've got 10 books in me."
"i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan."
"One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion."
"The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths."
"The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome."
"If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning."
"Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it."
"There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions."
"In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out."
"The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged."
"2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen at Indian Hills Theater. That movie woke me up in ways that I hadn't imagined, and I went searching for book versions of the same drug."
"I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse."
"So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion."
"I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him by his former post-doc, Nathan Myhrvold.]"
