Quotes about book
book writing world
I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight James Levine
book science epidemics
Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text. James Lovelock
book add life-is
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. James M. Barrie
book writing able
It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?
book firsts pockets
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
book people engagement
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along. James L. Buckley
book thinking worship
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. James Larkin
book virginia remembrance
The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain. James Lane Allen
book two orchestra
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra. James Laughlin
book inquiring psychological
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro. Joe Queenan
book mind lovers
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
book weapons siege
Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.
book sadness may
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.
book taken fighting
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain. If a book is there, it is there for a reason.
book people lending
Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.
book thinking possibility
I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill . Joe Eszterhas
book pages rhythm
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm. Joan Didion
book sleep rooms
Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.
book night blue
This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.
book sleep rooms
When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.
book character talking
Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking. Then I start to love them. By the time I finish the book, I love them so much that I want to stay with them. I don't want to leave them ever.
book writing dark
It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.
book guitar play
If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it's great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire. Joan Jett
book writing significant-things
The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I'm not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do. Jim Woodring
book hands alternatives
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
book writing class
When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did. Jim McKelvey
book ideas blank
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. Erik Larson
book reading giving
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.
book ifs
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
book men cities
Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.
book writing scene
I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them. Eric Van Lustbader
book house wells
Better is a book than a well built house. Eric Thomas
book scripts
I've never read a script that I've loved equally and differently to the book. Emma Roberts