Quotes about book
book dramatic ebb great million stories tension
A Million Little Pieces. I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to have the tension that all great stories require. James Frey
book duality forbidden friend islam mine muslim paradise points precisely rewarded righteous similar
A Muslim friend of mine who has just read the book points out to me that Islam retains a similar duality over paradise. In paradise the righteous are rewarded with precisely what is forbidden on earth.
book censorship dollar fight helps librarians royalties sale students teachers
All of our royalties from the sale of the book go to NCAC. Every dollar helps them fight censorship and helps the teachers and students and librarians who are under fire. Judy Blume
book censorship dollar fight helps librarians royalties sale students teachers
All of our royalties from the sale of the book go to NCAC, ... Every dollar helps them fight censorship and helps the teachers and students and librarians who are under fire.
books diaries felt grew natural since smile written
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension. Raina Telgemeier
books bottom figures line publishers safe safest selling
All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option. You go for the safest bottom line and as long as Dahl is selling a lot of books you can't go wrong.
books contain extremely historical lies tedious
All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious Anatole France
books everywhere influences travel
And all of those things: my religion, my politics, my family, my friends, the books I read, everywhere I travel - that influences everything I do. Mandy Patinkin
book reading people
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects. Edward St Aubyn
book writing scott-fitzgerald
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness. Edward Dahlberg
book funeral heaven
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
book people liberty
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature. Edward Bellamy
book humility unique
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book Edith Hamilton
book thinking aggravation
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86. Eddie Campbell
book heart writing
Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your heart. You get the tone, and the fingers will follow. Eddie Cahill
book thinking boston
It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on - much of it stoppable, I think, and yet I, too, am also guilty of passivity. Edan Lepucki
book loss safety
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.
book writing sadness
I am not sure I knew what I was doing, writing an "apocalypse" novel, when I started this book. Now that the book is done, I can own that I have in fact written an apocalypse novel, one that speculates on a dark, dark future. Why I did it, I really don't know - every time people read my work they comment on its darkness, its sadness.
book school character
I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal's school and I eventually cut them because they didn't seem essential and they slowed the pace of the story in the first third of the book. They were essential to me, though, in that I learned about my characters.
book people vision
Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was affecting the world. I had a sense there was already a book somehow in existence. I drew a circle on a piece of paper and it said "book." Then I wrote something about the effect the book had on the world, how it influenced my life and other people's lives, and how it came to be translated into many languages affecting hundreds of thousands of people. Eckhart Tolle
book grows
The newest books are those that never grow old. Holbrook Jackson
book reading drunk
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
book joy forever
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
book reading exercise
Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
book obscenity prove
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
book writing great-book
Great books conserve time.
book rooms reader
The better the book the more room for the reader.
book home air
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."
book jealous soul
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.
book knows
What an author doesn't know could fill a book. Holly Black
book writing thinking
I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.
book holy-grail firsts
A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
book belief living-things
It is my belief that books are living things.