Quotes about book
book advice opinion
They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely. Gustave Flaubert
book wind ideas
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?
book literature way
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
book joy age
In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour! Graydon Carter
book people credit
The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.
book thinking deception
In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.
book thinking two
I always tell people it's funny that they think I'm a relationship expert because my two books are about getting out of relationships. Greg Behrendt
book ideas guy
I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.
book dating comedian
I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.
book hero mean
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos. Gilbert K. Chesterton
book taken writing
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.
book buddhism giving
Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.
book hair hands
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.
book writing world
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
book written
Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.
book pages st-thomas
St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
book reading hero
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
book inward found
Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there. John Dryden
book men soul
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. . . . He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating in to clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him.
book kids home
The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.
book knowing perfect
You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things John Mayer
book competition liberty
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than is the theory of production and distribution of a given output produced under the conditions of free competition and a large measure of laissez-faire. John Maynard Keynes
book two shadow
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight. John M. Ford
book writing would-be
If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.
book skills pieces
A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the act of turning a page. John Maeda
book purses study
Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. John Lyly
book littles profit
We profit little by books we do not enjoy. John Lubbock
book joy my-one-and-only
Books are like my one and only joy. John Lydon
book people emotion
I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
book men giving
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. John Locke
book giants language
With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
book reading mind
Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.
book writing successful
In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.