Quotes about book
book comforting intellectual
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper. David Quammen
book science technology
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. Carl Sagan
book magic cosmos
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
book voice years
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
book library lifetime
If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
book magic cosmos
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
book weapons victim
Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim. Cai Guo-Qiang
book vanity rights
From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood. Bryan Burrough
book beer mates
I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer. Bryan Brown
book my-favorite dilemma
Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.
book alive stills
But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope. Bryce Courtenay
book writing thinking
The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write. Chad Harbach
book ideas dollars
Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.
book writing two
I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.
book space world
I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go.
book topics strive
Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.
book thinking people
If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking leaks into yours. So whatever changes MFAs have made to the culture, it's to the culture as a whole. It can't be pinned down to individual books in a way that some people would like to do.
book fighting years
I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.
book writing hands
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."
book writing interesting
I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas. Catherine Crier
book twilight firsts
I directed the first "Twilight" movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films, but I didn't feel as connected to the other books. Catherine Hardwicke
book hotel company
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it. Catherine Deneuve
book class inferiority
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies. Carter G. Woodson
book dozen firsts
A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.
book magic world
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
book moments my-favorite
My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment Caroline B. Cooney
book believe careers
I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career
book fighting voice
Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value. Caroline Kennedy
book writing done
Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.
book kids three
I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.
book shoes suitcases
I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara. Carolina Herrera
book people agendas
Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.
book artistic process
It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series. Carlton Cuse