Quotes about book
book people realizing
I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium. Lee Strobel
book names research
There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see my name. Writers of the stature of Mailer and even bigger. All over the world. Lawrence Schiller
book adventure funny-travel
And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it. Lawrence Kasdan
book listening religion
[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening? Lawrence M. Krauss
book ideas two
Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence. Lauren Hutton
book phones looks
I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.
book school people
I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older. Lauren Groff
book writing thinking
In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.
book character writing
While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.
book long occasional
Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content. Lauren Conrad
book stories done
The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.
book mean writing
My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.
book opportunity people
I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.
book writing years
When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.
book bags four
Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes. Larry Niven
book writing thinking
The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.
book space library
Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them. Larry McMurtry
book home library
Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.
book information
A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.
book writing animal
The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
book heart self-confidence
In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it. Lady Gaga
book writing men
I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not. Lew Wallace
book diaries letters
Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp. Lewis H. Lapham
book writing people
When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!" Lewis Black
book government why-not
If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'
book mean use
I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book. Lewis Carroll
book reading tired
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?
book writing years
If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!
book mean thinking
I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.
book reading wonderland
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
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There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!
book thinking hands
'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.
book mean use
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.