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At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.

I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use words to make my mark in this history book.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

My showbiz career started with 'SNL,' and to write an 'SNL' book... well, there are already enough of those.

It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.

A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'

I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'

People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!

I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.

Reading the Book of Mormon is one of the greatest persuaders to get men on missions.

From the Book of Mormon, we learn how disciples of Christ live in times of war.

There is a difference between a convert who is built on the rock of Christ through the Book of Mormon and stays hold of that iron rod, and one who is not.

I have a vision of homes alerted, of classes alive, and of pulpits aflame with the spirit of Book of Mormon messages.

A young man who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord.

In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.

I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.