Quotes about boo
book character hands
The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity. Don DeLillo
book three four
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
book people individual
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
book thinking america
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
book wasps
And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why. Dylan Thomas
book reading thinking
Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
book library censorship
Don't join the book burners! Dwight D. Eisenhower
book reading library
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
book writing want
I have a lot of books I want to write. Douglas Brinkley
book hero writing
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.
book reading thinking
For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts. Douglas Booth
book pennies computer
We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books. Douglas Adams
book ideas cereal
Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops.
book writing awful
It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.
book believe way
Go through John's Gospel, and study the "believes," the "verilys," the " I ams; "and go through the Bible in that way, and it becomes a new book to you. Dwight L. Moody
book writing thinking
I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.
book blessed heart
A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. Douglas William Jerrold
book bed
This book is to be read in bed. Dr. Seuss
book relief needs
It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)
book may tongue
The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!
book clothes old-friends
... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life. Dorothy Gilman
book ties together
I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together. Dorothy Fields
book reading men
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live. Dorothy Day
book reading ems
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. Dorothy L. Sayers
book writing impossible
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
book thinking yesterday
I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found a story that happened around here yesterday or the day before that's just as shocking as anything in my book. Donald Ray Pollock
book character cartoon
The way I saw the characters these things just happened naturally. At the same time - and I know it's probably not apparent when you read the book - but I really tried to hold back because I didn't want it to become a cartoon.
book writing would-be
Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
book giving people
I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it. Donald Miller
book writing people
When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really intimate exchange. And so people ask me where I get the boldness to talk about this or that, but I didn't feel like it required any sort of courage, because I was alone. Sometimes it feels weird for people to read it.
book pieces prose
All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
book people letters
There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.
book grateful writing
I had some friends commenting me books, but mostly it was people I didn't know. But they're fans. They're fans of the books, so they have a working knowledge of how I write, and they know what they like and what they don't like. I'm really grateful for their feedback.