Quotes about book
book kids mean
I’ll be quite frank with you — I didn’t know about Hunger Games — so when I’m telling kids and they say, ‘Who are you playing?’ and I say Cinna, they go, ‘Oh you’re playing the gay guy.’ That was an actual answer. I’ve never brought that up yet. That’s how they perceived it. So I thought about it, and I read the book and I don’t see that he is or isn’t [gay]. He’s a designer, he’s a stylist, he has gold eyeliner—that doesn’t mean anything either way. Lenny Kravitz
book open-book
I'm pretty much an open book. Lee Greenwood
book years walking-dead
I was pretty nervous when I met Robert Kirkman. It's very strange to meet someone who created you. Andrea [ from The Walking Dead] is still very much alive and kicking, seven years into the comic book, so to meet Robert and be like, "Hi, I'm Andrea," I had to just hope that he was happy with the decision. Laurie Holden
book yes-you-can ideas
. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No. Laurie Anderson
book thinking kind
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
book way
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
book writing people
People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
book writing world
If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet. Laurie Halse Anderson
book helping funny-book
I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.
book princess reading
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.
book messages reader
Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.
book kids writing
I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle?
book pages wanted
I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page
book healing writing
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me. LaToya Jackson
book long not-alone
As long as we have books, we are not alone. Laura Bush
book firsts comfort
I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)
book character america
The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved authors, .. Readers of all ages can listen to favorite writers speaking about their books, have books autographed, meet many storybook characters and enjoy a day on the National Mall.
book sleep night
Books are important. They help you sleep at night.
book hands stories
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
book soul mind
In fact, you don’t have a soul, you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body or your mind. You are you. L. Ron Hubbard
book use littles
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.
book names legendary
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
book men limitation
Beware the man of a single book. Thomas Aquinas
book chickens
There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken. Thom Yorke
book way ridiculous
I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.
book writing appreciate
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written. Terry Teachout
book writing
The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you. Terry Tempest Williams
book arbitrary falsification
All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix. Lester Bangs
book reading writing
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.
book two numbers
The most superficial fact regarding the Discourses , the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy 's History , compelled us to start a chain of tentative reasoning which brings us suddenly face to face with the only New Testament quotation that ever appears in Machiavelli 's two books and with an enormous blasphemy. Leo Strauss
book life-is-too-short life-is
Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.
book dark night
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. Leo Rosten
book reading answers
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.