Quotes about book
book hero mean
What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you? Daphne du Maurier
book self autobiography
All autobiography is self-indulgent.
book names name-dropping
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
book simple luxury
But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
book dark journey
Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. Dante Alighieri
book men two
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony. Dan Simmons
book abandoned finished
No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.
book ideas shadow
Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.
book magic ends
Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up. Dan Savage
book thinking presidential
I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies. Dan Rather
book history historical
It's a very good historical book about history. Dan Quayle
book writing grades
I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself. Cynthia Voigt
book writing ideas
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
book people literature
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it. Cynthia Ozick
book fall reading
Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.
book forever political
All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.
book second-chance next
In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
book writing air
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up. Cyril Connolly
book party writing
There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.
book writing paint
How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?
book people career-success
The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.
book gossip tvs
I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore. Daphne Guinness
book mean thinking
Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and a soul. Dara Horn
book action internet
We all have so much access to the information on the Internet and in books, but we don't necessarily get that information in a usable way so that we can turn information into action. Daphne Oz
book character care
A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply. Danielle Steel
book writing thinking
Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse. Dan Millman
book warrior offering
My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates" after the ancient Greek, and wrote about in my first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. That book emerged in 1980, as a result of travels around the world and decades of preparation, eventually leading to 15 other books written over the years, culminating in my newest offering, The Four Purposes of Life.
book strenght brain
God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us. Corrie Ten Boom
book doe stories
Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world. Cornelia Funke
book pages owners
a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
book order letters
Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!
book kissing laughing
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.
book half remember
Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.