Quotes about book
book writing mosquitoes
I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch. Gregory Maguire
book butterfly social
I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. Hope Solo
book want rooms
I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.
book writing careers
The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book Holly Lisle
book writing soul
I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul. Ignazio Silone
book cat men
DMT was a gaseous wax that you could smoke that gave you a 20-minute psychedelic high. You'd inhale it. And then when you'd exhale—poof, you'd be high. I saw Buddha, man. I know that sounds like no big deal. But I saw a gigantic holographic Buddha — correct in every way! Buddhas can be very intricate — these drawings that you see in books. Thousands of details were included in this Buddha. Where did they come from? I didn't make them up. I can't even draw, you know? I could barely spell cat, you know? And there it was. And I thought, Wow — the power of the mind, you know? Iggy Pop
book writing asking-questions
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist. Each book hopefully adds another piece to the jigsaw that is modern Scotland, asking questions about the nation's politics, economy, psyche and history ... and perhaps pointing towards its possible future. Ian Rankin
book adventure writing
I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.
book awards paper
No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
book writing thinking
I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
book dark thinking
A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
book taken writing
I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.
book writing fate
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life. Iain Sinclair
book years drawing
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. Iain Banks
book long people
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
book character
I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
book fairy-stories world
Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories
book self air
Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
book writing trying
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
book usual film
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
book character writing
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
book bottles whiskey
A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor. Hugh Walpole
book hands self
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept. Hugh Prather
book good-book stills
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. Hugo Chavez
book ideas people
Whether it's from the books or the films, there are some people that will have a very fixed idea in their head. You're not going to match that. At a certain point, you have to accept that. Hugh Dancy
book play years
Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.
book creativity writing
I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't! Hugh Grant
book school uprising
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings. Huey Newton
book people mountain
The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and so disrespectful, by inattention, to people's movements-that we need some counterforce to avoid being crushed into submission. Howard Zinn
book thinking way
That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.
book opportunity long
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.
book firsts imagine
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early. Howard Nemerov
book would-be psychologist
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. Howard Gardner