Quotes about book
book school shoes
With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes. John Irving
book people film
I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure." It doesn't bother me if people feel that way.
book reading school
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
book fans world
All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire. John Howe
book illustration long
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
book age firsts
There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. John Hersey
book writing agents
A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. John Hodgman
book names boss
What I've discovered more recently is copies of books that I didn't represent, but that my boss represented when I assisted her on the dollar pile. I won't mention any names, but it is this profoundly bittersweet time of realizing, "Oh, I had a wonderful time working on this book and now it is a dollar relic on the side of the road."
book good-friend giving
When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.
book sorrow defining
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
book firsts clear
My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.
book writing fake
By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.
book dining use
I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.
book writing thinking
I think that by the time I start writing the third book, of course, I will be President Of The United States, and that also will have something to do with it. I'll probably have to acknowledge that somehow.
book oddities decision
Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.
book reading antiques
A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
book mean thinking
All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.
book writing people
Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
book dedicated copies
I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
book criticism care
The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. John Harington
book details make-sense
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am." John Guare
book culture passionate
I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. John Galliano
book men squares
The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it. John Galsworthy
book buddhism synthesizers
But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism. John Frusciante
book writing importance
I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance. John Entwistle
book library environmental
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. John Dingell
book men world
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world. John Donne
book reading lovers
I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.
book writing reality
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can. John Dos Passos
book creativity adventure
The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.
book men islands
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
book desire should
He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.
book character indicators
There is no better indicators of character than the books you have. John Dunning