Quotes about book
book college games
You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.' Gail Collins
book reading character
What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending. Gabrielle Zevin
book heart stories
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works.
book sometimes right-time
Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.
book twenties meals
When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
book heart promise
I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.
book vices twenties
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life
book reading thinking
Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
book answers needs
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
book differences may
I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day. Gail Carriger
book lust administration
Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, lusting for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results. Fred Upton
book responsibility creating
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family. Frank McCourt
book thinking titles
I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
book writing matter
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
book passion persistence
The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as important as principles. Without principles, the language will fail. Frank Luntz
book winning npr
I wrote "Win" for people on both sides, legitimately on both sides. If you're a Democrat listening to this right now, you - the whole playbook is in this book. If you're a Republican, and you're frustrated because Barack Obama is a great communicator, the playbook is in this book. And if you're a corporation who wants to satisfy his - their employees, how to do it is in this book. And finally, if you're an employee and you want to get a raise, whether at NPR or anyplace else, it's in this book.
book writing anxiety
Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.
book winning past
It's something that people who read my materials have asked me in the past. If you don't have principles - the last chapter of the book ["Win"] is all about winning with principles. It's all about applying words to good things, good people, good efforts. Without that inherent accuracy, then even the best words will still fail.
book writing shelves
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. Maggie Stiefvater
book horror filmmaker
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
book hands going-away
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
book important done
I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
book hair smell
I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed. I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.
book smell air
As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.
book writing lines
You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.
book taken reading
I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.
book wife cry
I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
book thinking challenges
I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
book hair soundtracks
Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.
book ideas work-out
I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
book matter good-book
There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.
book home pages
...she made her home in between the pages of books.
book reading library
I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.