Quotes about book
book hands alternatives
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. Jim Woodring
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 said print
I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'. Eric Sykes
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
book details
For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.
book writing los-angeles
I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel. Emma Thompson
book reading thinking
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
book reading relaxation
It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book. Emma Watson
book character games
I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character. Emilia Clarke
book tvs never-trust
Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf
book writing multitasking
I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book. Heidi Klum
book clothes glue
I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.
book rocks vocabulary
Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them. John McPhee
book names succeed
There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about. John McEnroe
book reading charming
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. John McGahern
book boys advice
I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.
book editors long
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long.
book ideas space
Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.
book thinking differences
I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
book thinking church
The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.
book issues economics
The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book. John McCain
book dozen littles
How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? John James Audubon
book believe bird
When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.
book kids responsibility
It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour. John Irving
book writing long
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
book grandmother finals
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.
book simple house
You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.