Quotes about book
book writing thinking
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too. Peter Carey
book ambition weather
My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.' Pete Hamill
book not-good-enough titles
Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book. Pete Sampras
book years rose
The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years. Pete Rose
book self ongoing
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com. Piers Anthony
book editors collaboration
As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.
book reading library
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.
book thinking clothes
Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned. Phyllis McGinley
book maturity needs
There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.
book stories adults
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. Philip Pullman
book order doctrine
As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.
book symbolism philosopher
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It was hardly surprising to find philosophers using the symbolism of their time to interpret knowledge that came from a mysterious source.
book reading writing
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?
book killing
My books are about killing God.
book america people
I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak. I'm a great fan of J.K. Rowling, but the people—mainly from America's Bible Belt—who complain that Harry Potter promotes Satanism or witchcraft obviously haven't got enough in their lives. Meanwhile, I've been flying under the radar, saying things that are far more subversive than anything poor old Harry has said. My books are about killing God.
book believe pay
The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.
book thinking killing
I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.
book writing mind
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
book ideas stolen
I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
book rights forever
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
book hard-work writing
The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work. Rachel Gibson
book writing romance
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
book order firsts
Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
book writing old-friends
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends. Rachel Field
book writing creative
I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative. Rachel Dratch
book taken writing
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life. Rachel Cusk
book artist justice
There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
book eye hands
Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me. Rachel Cohn
book way easier
Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.
book dull want
No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
book darkness feels
I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
book writing sea
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry. Rachel Carson
book important use
The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important.