Quotes about book
book hundred knows
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. Donna Tartt
book first-love aquariums
The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
book writing waiting-rooms
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
book writing learning
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks. Donald Knuth
book exercise important
The book Dynamic Programming by Richard Bellman is an important, pioneering work in which a group of problems is collected together at the end of some chapters under the heading "Exercises and Research Problems," with extremely trivial questions appearing in the midst of deep, unsolved problems. It is rumored that someone once asked Dr. Bellman how to tell the exercises apart from the research problems, and he replied: "If you can solve it, it is an exercise; otherwise it's a research problem."
book kids aspergers
I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome. Donald Glover
book writing thinking
I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film. Don Winslow
book thinking guy
No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film. Donal Logue
book writing tired
I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book. Don Rickles
book reading hearing
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. Dale Archer
book law names
It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln. Dale Carnegie
book obsession really-cool
I have this obsession with really cool, old books. Constance Zimmer
book reading differences
Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them. Corbin Bleu
book reading school
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book. Coolio
book opportunity giving
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. Claud Cockburn
book reading liberty
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.
book order land
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales. Claude Levi-Strauss
book reading silence
We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can say anything. Silence is our guarantee of intimacy. We might have finished reading but we`re still living the book. Daniel Pennac
book wells chosen
A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.
book reading writing
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive while illuminating how tragically absurd life is.
book writing easy
All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show? Daniel Pinkwater
book kids want
I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book. Daniel Radcliffe
book reading blood
I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.
book years together
Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread it and see if there is anything I want to change or any re-coloring I want to do. That's when I'm faced with the actual work. When I'm working, I'm too close to it. I'm sort of inside, and I can't see it at all. So when I have that experience of rereading it years later, it's jarring. Daniel Clowes
book artist years
If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.
book past drawing
I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.
book projects feels
As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."
book waiting gone
Certainly it's great to be able to talk to your friends about something. They might mention a film, and you can find all about it, and you don't have to wait months until you can find a book that might cover the subject and keep it in your head. You can have that kind of immediacy. But there's also something about it, where all the knowledge seems kind of fleeting. All the stuff I learn about in that way, I can be interested in for a day and then it's gone.
book mean adults
It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.
book online reader
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
book envisioning process
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
book issues people
I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.
book thinking ships
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.