Quotes about book
book writing would-be
If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book. John M. Ford
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.
book men thinking
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
book share something-you-love
Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share. John Lithgow
book people march
It is our hope that when people read "March" - Book One, Book Two, and Book Three - that they will understand that another generation of people, especially young people, were deeply inspired by the work of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others. John Lewis
book luther changed
The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.
book people march
This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, "This is a way".
book school writing
In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around. John Lennon
book paper stuff
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
book fiction firsts
I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction. John Larroquette
book reading enough
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.
book play letters
I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.
book writing needs
If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books. John Lancaster Spalding
book men years
A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.
book men hands
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. John le Carre
book rights decision
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.
book writing
I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me. John Kluge
book taken hands
Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; have never worked in a theatre, taken an acting class, or published any extended piece of work. They are creative virgins; everything they know about theatre is book-learned and second-hand. John Lahr
book artist theatre
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.
book nerd stuff
I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff. John Barrowman
book past fantasy
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right. John Banville
book way bigs
The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.
book hard-work rewards
In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.
book judging worst
I am the worst judge of my books.
book crime-novels protagonists
With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.