Quotes about book
book happiness-and-love comfort
Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love. Cornelia Funke
book strange-places ideas
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
book taken kids
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
book world heavy
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
book firsts curtains
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
book far-away hours
Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away
book thinking long-ago
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.
book want pretending
If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.
book reading ears
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.
book reading thought-provoking
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
book people burning
You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
book reading practice
This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney Hook is essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice in America. Cornel West
book people missing
Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!
book reality men
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it. Cormac McCarthy
book sixteen freethinker
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
book years people
People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.
book writing thinking
I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms of the obligation, I think we're all individuals on this planet, trying to scratch our way through the day, and if you're writing a book exposing atrocities in Rwanda or writing a murder mystery set in a mountain village, I think both ways of spending you time are valid and both books are probably fine to read. Colson Whitehead
book writing careers
Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
book writing people
I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that other people get something out of them, enjoy them, see the world differently when they're done.
book simple thinking
I always have a few ideas that are percolating, and then after I've finished a book and it's a year later, and things are sort of festering and things are disgusting in my house and I have to get back to work, whatever project I keep thinking about is the one I end up working on. Sort of a very simple process of elimination.
book writing thinking
I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.
book bored want
In terms of why everything is different, each book is different than the one before because I'm so bored of what I just finished I want to work on something different. The next book becomes an antidote to what I did before.
book gay men
The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens. Colm Toibin
book thinking offering
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
book important fourth
It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
book reader finished
A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader. Colum McCann
book taken mean
I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book
book years different
I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!
book mean writing
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means Clifford Geertz
book moon views
I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
book president brushes
Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush. Conan O'Brien
book writing president
President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.
book tree als
Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a book that no one will read.