Quotes about book
book mean kids
I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt. Dana Spiotta
book years twelve
I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy. Dane Cook
book use benefits
Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can use to your benefit, in terms of figuring out who you are, you gain in the ability to just be whoever you want to be. Dallas Roberts
book government california
This is a book called Women in the Shade of Islam. It's published by the government of Saudi Arabia. I picked it up in Pakistan, where the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary, and our young wife in California would've picked up an item like this. And it puts out that Salafi-Wahhabi ideology that is ultimately the toxic poison that is crossing all these borders. Dalia Mogahed
book people purpose
The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people who want help. It's primarily a book for pastors. They're the ones that can use it in a way so that it actually achieves its purpose. Dallas Willard
book thinking years
In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book. Curtis Sittenfeld
book thinking age
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
book writing thinking
I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
book thinking people
Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try
book college guarantees
Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education. David Byrne
book inspiration voice
The inspiration is all in the script, in the text. So whatever it is, either it is a film or a book to be illustrated, anything. Everything you need to know is in the text. So the thing is trying to find right tone and voice, the right style, the right way of expressing the emotions in a story or in the location of the story, but it is all in the text. Dave McKean
book raw-materials stories
I'm a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I'm not a scientist, my interest in science is I love the facts, but I like to interpret those facts. They become the raw materials for stories and paintings and things.
book cities little-sister
Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read. The Everleigh story closely follows the turns of American history like a little sister. I can't recommend this book loudly enough. Darin Strauss
book writing thinking
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent. Darrell Hammond
book self people
I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile. Dave Eggers
book writing world
Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.
book creativity voice
Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them. It is a f@*$%load of work to be open-minded and generous and understanding and forgiving and accepting, but Christ, that is what matters. What matters is saying yes.
book nonfiction
Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.
book editors publishing-house
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
book numbers midwest
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
book college awards
Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.
book ideas fake
It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.
book effort design
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.
book dark firsts
When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.
book saved
Then he got more books. He saved all the books.
book thinking world
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
book writing years
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.
book unique way
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.
book technique metaphor
I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques. David Lehman
book unique voice
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and exposes the myth of liberal tolerance as she relates her interactions with liberals in everyday life. This narrative, interlaced with commentary and impressions, gives us insight into liberals that books merely about abstract principles do not capture. A fascinating read. David Limbaugh
book waiting lines
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. David Levithan
book dying way
I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly
book good-book should
They defy gravity, as good books should.