Books Quote by John Logan Download Open image “When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.” — John Logan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Earning Earning money Long Long time Money Only Started Time Were Writing
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well. — Kate Seredy Copy Share Image
All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Collecting cookbooks is still my biggest passion! Believe it or not, I actually got the biggest form of inspiration from my kids. My kids… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever. — John Logan Copy Share Image
“Children don't have hearts yet, not really. They haven't been hurt into the need for one.” — John Logan Copy Share Image
I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was 'Diamonds Are Forever,' when I was a kid. I just loved… — John Logan Copy Share Image
The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going back to… — John Logan Copy Share Image
The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story. — John Logan Copy Share Image
“But how can you be Peter Pan? You? The Boy Who Never Grew Up? That's not you. You have egg on your collar. You… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was writing a play about Howard… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“Everyone likes everything nowadays. They like the television and the phonograph and the shampoo and the soda pop and the Cracker Jack. Everything becomes… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I say, 'You… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through… — John Logan Copy Share Image
I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever… — John Logan Copy Share Image
If you look at the muscularity of something like 'Wicked' and the way it has just spawned sort of generations of young people wanting… — John Logan Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image