Book Quotes

The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.

Zack Snyder

Almost Another Batman Between

The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.

Zack Snyder

Biggest Book Challenge Get

He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

Zack Snyder

Adventure Also Amazing Ambassador

I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

Zack Snyder

About Always Amazing Arms

It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

Zadie Smith

About As far as Banal Begins

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

Zadie Smith

Book Cautious Going Good

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

Zadie Smith

Ambition Anything Book Competition

I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.

Zadie Smith

America Any Book Issues

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

Zayn Malik

Always Amazing Art Book

If people call my book an actor's memoir I will be very upset. I can't bear anything too literal, so it has elements of truth and elements of fiction sitting side by side.

Zawe Ashton

Actor Anything Bear Book

I'm so grateful to everyone who has bought a copy of 'Girl Online.' I love that so many of my viewers are enjoying the book!

Zoe Sugg

Book Bought Copy Enjoying

Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they're worried about upsetting the author.

Zoe Foster Blake

About Adaptation Author Because

I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.

Zoe Foster Blake

Because Book Break Clear

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

Zoe Sugg

About Anxiety Book Helped

Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

Zoe Sugg

Always Book Could Had

I've never read one book about my father.

Ziggy Marley

About Book Father Never

I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'

Zosia Mamet

Book Could Dates Enjoyable

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Zoltan Kodaly

Adult Book Educated Imagining

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