Quotes about book
book thinking years
The right wing conservatives think it’s a decision that you can be cured with some treatment and religion.//Manmade rewiring of a predisposition//Oh no here we go, America the brave still fears what we don't know//But we paraphrase a book written 3500 years ago, I don't know… Macklemore
book hero character
I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim. Lynn Flewelling
book pages alphabet
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? Haruki Murakami
book mean logic
Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
book way
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
book reading kids
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.
book writing realistic
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
book four stills
I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
book writing purpose
I myself, as I'm writing, don't know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start to write a story, I don't know the conclusion at all and I don't know what's going to happen next. If there is a murder case as the first thing, I don't know who the killer is. I write the book because I would like to find out. If I know who the killer is, there's no purpose to writing the story.
book night whisky
Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
book writing years
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
book writing priorities
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
book chinese together
Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.
book library quiet
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.
book individual curious
The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.
book reading school
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.
book ambition dorms
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.
book reading ordinary
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
book breathing smell
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.
book years people
The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
book judging competent
Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.
book communication teaching
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry. Joe Vitale
book character mad
I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right. Joe Manganiello
book kids crowds
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.
book way going-out
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world. Joanna Trollope
book library rooms
You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
book men dust
Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust. Joaquin Miller
book soul creeds
The soul that feeds on books alone -- I count that soul exceeding small That lives alone by book and creed, -- A soul that has not learned to read.
book people causes
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending. Joanne Harris
book writing leaving
Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
book fiction next
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.
book mark ends
The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
book heart soul
Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.