Quotes about book
book thinking decision
So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum. Karen Russell
book white madness
Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.
book writing symphony
It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.
book reading names
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn’t be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library’s peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light…
book kicking ends
I'm kicking myself in the rear end every day, saying, 'Did I really book this many shows? What am I doing?' Justin Moore
book fall reading
I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or learning them or writing them. And so, by the time the day is done, I usually just want to click on The Bachelor and fall asleep. But I gravitate toward biographies and things like that. Justin Theroux
book reading focus
Actually, I'm reading a lot of my scripts. When I'm working on something, it's hard to find time. You're always prepping new material. You don't want to be buried in a book. It splits your focus a little bit.
book library body
Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb! George MacDonald
book wind break-through
Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.
book men house
They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.
book library ready
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
book writing thinking
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.
book thinking brain
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently. George Johnson
book hands might
"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette. Emily Post
book home house
In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'. Emanuel Celler
book kids knows
I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time. Ellie Goulding
book happy-endings sleight-of-hand
You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books. Ellen Hopkins
book love-is found
Love is only found in books
book writing important
I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
book people inspire
Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
book character writing
Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.
book thinking suspense-novels
I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book. Elizabeth Hand
book reading storm
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable. Elizabeth Goudge
book writing worry
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being. Elizabeth Gilbert
book two mind
As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it [a book], and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction [of a story].
book thinking imagination
I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.
book writing psychology
I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
book egypt years
Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years. Elaine Pagels
book shining common
Every TV show I've ever made, every game I've ever built, and every book I've ever published has had the common thread of building the biggest, brightest spotlight imaginable and then flipping it around to shine on you.
book men known
I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man. Jimmy Fallon
book heart men
I saw that on Small Business Saturday, the president went shopping at a bookstore and bought 17 books, including "The Laughing Monsters," "Being Mortal," and "Heart of Darkness." Or as the cashier put it, "You OK, man? Maybe a little 'Chicken Soup for the Presidential Soul?'
book reading two
This week Bill Clinton tweeted a photo of himself reading George W. Bush's new book '41.' Then George W. Bush responded to that post on Instagram. Then John McCain said 'You two are hilarious' by telegraph.
book america government
Joe Biden went to Brazil in an effort to try and repair America's relationship with their government. Biden said, 'It's great to be here in the Amazon. I've always wanted to see where all the books come from.'