Book Quote by Terry Pratchett

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

— E. L. Doctorow

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

— Maurice Sendak

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of…

— Ray Bradbury

Songs are more powerful than books.

— Elvis Costello

I find reading books about music is sometimes tricky, because you can't hear it. But when you read a book about filmmaking, it's a…

— Bear McCreary

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

— Henry David Thoreau

A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.

— Eric Pio

I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.

— Rich Ferguson

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and…

— Gary Paulsen

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into…

— Gillian Flynn

The music is the emotional substance of the show; the book just sets it up. Nobody goes to a musical to hear the book.…

— James Lapine

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual…

— Kenneth Branagh