Quotes about book
book years passionate
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. China Mieville
book writing names
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
book writing thinking
Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
book knowledge consistency
Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency Edward Hirsch
book taste glory
A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life. Edward Gibbon
book house library
... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump. Edith Wharton
book character writing
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. David Walliams
book right-time has-beens
I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time. David Heyman
book reading thinking
In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books. David Icke
book reading should
I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books. Benedict Cumberbatch
book india
I'm not too interested in books about India. Beatrice Wood
book needs
All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything. August Wilson
book reading sea
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. Arthur Ransome
book people
As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves. Arnold Bennett
book writing years
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards. Antony Beevor
book reading writing
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
book believe luck
I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
book writing reality
I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality. Antonin Artaud
book writing men
I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch. Diablo Cody
book men way
I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult. Denis O'Hare
book years cameras
I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera. Deidre Hall
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The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.
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The point of the book was to give fans an inside look at what a general manager does, in terms of personal interaction, in terms of trade-making, in terms of issues that general managers deal with. In this case, I thought I had an opportunity, with literary license, to show a very human side of him. If his point is, 'OK, John, that was a private conversation and I would prefer that you keep it that way,' I understand that. John Schuerholz
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book card cigarette forgot missed poker run
We've already got the hats, the T-shirts. We've got poker cigarette lighters, poker card holders and posters. The one thing they've missed out on of everything they've put out is that they've forgot to put out a book of how to run a card room.
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We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.
book world garments
A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers. William Shakespeare
books fairy stories telling
When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?' Nicolas Roeg
books helps kept lose might notes odd organize related seeing stimulate whether wondered worry
For notes related to books I'm writing, I've wondered whether I should organize my notes better, but I do find that the action or scrolling through them and seeing odd juxtapositions of ideas helps to stimulate my own ideas and creativity. I worry that if I kept the notes in a highly-structured way, I might lose some of these benefits. Gretchen Rubin
book character writing
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time. Kurt Vonnegut
book people might
People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.
book thoughtful past
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.
book networking magazines
If it had anything to do with the PC or networking industry I was on top of it. I bought manuals. I read every book and magazine. Then I would get involved with industry conferences and put myself out there. Mark Cuban