Quotes about boo
book library
Read books. They are good for us. Natalie Goldberg
book writing ifs
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.
book writing world
I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around." The publishing world is a business, but it's not any big deal. An editor is not your guru. Your agent is not your guru.
book writing mind
Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion. I don't say to myself, "No, you have stay on the subject," because I know that the longer I stay on the subject the more boring I get. So, if my mind wants to write about an onion, it might be a deeper way to go into what I'm working on, even though it might seem irrelevant. This is how I've learned to follow my mind.
book kind
If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener. Natalie Portman
book writing perfect-days
You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day. Taylor Swift
book thinking talking
When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else. Tao Lin
book writing media
Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face. Tama Janowitz
book people treats
I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great. Judy Blume
book library four
I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four...
book character ideas
Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.
book writing challenges
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
book fighting offensive
Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
book kids needs
Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
book reading vampire
I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books. Josh Radnor
book thinking different
I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.
book ambition men
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life. Joseph Conrad
book people video
Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of. Karrine Steffans
book sitting suits
There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life. Laz Alonso
book thinking finished
I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet. Lawrence Welk
book twilight dvds
Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead! Lauren Bacall
book talking potters
It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Laurell K. Hamilton
book writing thinking
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
book writing worry
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print
book writing pages
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print
book mean mystery
For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.
book writing hours-in-the-day
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.
book reading men
Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer? Langston Hughes
book writing men
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
book thinking trying
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books. John Keegan
book wine doors
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening. John Keats
book chests divides
My chest of books divide amongst my friends--
book night thinking
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.