When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
Daniel Goleman

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.
Daniel Goleman

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
Jackie Collins

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
Jackie Collins

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

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
Lynn Abbey

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
Salman Rushdie

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.
Karl Lagerfeld

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
George Sand

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Samuel Johnson

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
Samuel Johnson

I will write another book if I feel like it.
James Herriot

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
Jim Harrison

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Jim Harrison

The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.
James Patterson

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.
James Patterson

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
Stephen Fry