Quotes about book
book character tone
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone. Jean Genet
book believe abuse
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
book world femme
The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
book mean simple
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?
book loud-voices hands
Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
book writing people
People who can write a book usually do. Jilly Cooper
book writing firefighter
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
book london bigs
I'd never have written the big books in London.
book writing thinking
But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.
book library littles
Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful. Jill Scott
book digital steps
Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online. Jessica Lange
book age entertainment
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. Jeremy Collier
book fate despair
I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.
book support solitude
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
book letters may
Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I thoroughly enjoyed every word of this wonderful book. Jennifer Chiaverini
book long people
People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.
book home thinking
Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind. Jennifer Carpenter
book squad usual
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest. Jennifer Egan
book reading years
I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction. Jeff Smith
book fall writing
I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.
book remember surprise
I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me. Jeff Tweedy
book writing thinking
The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se. Jeff Vandermeer
book reading kind
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.
book passion writing
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.
book envy brain
What I envy about musicians is, they have this more direct relationship with the audience. They don't have to go through words. Sure, the lyrics count, but they go more immediately into your brain. There's so much more work you have to put in as a writer - not just with the actual book, but how it's packaged and everything.
book reading writing
I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.
book men discovery
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it. Jean Rostand
book forgettable prerequisites
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
book writing past
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
book heaven solitude
Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. Jean Rhys
book writing matter
All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.
book reading giving
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
book slave-labor moments
At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day. Jhonen Vasquez