Quotes about book
book cooking special
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook. Aldous Huxley
book writing reality
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.
book heart names
Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.
book writing byron
Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!
book artist people
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.
book fall reading
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.
book reading writing
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
book brave-new-world culture
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
book reading writing
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
book reading past
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
book teaching light
The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves...In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light. Albert Pike
book reading writing
The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write. Albert Einstein
book errors nazi
[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.
book effort letters
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
book explanation blogs
Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
book reading doubt
My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
book reading gay
I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either. Ali Liebegott
book firsts forget
Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.
book class emergencies
In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!
book needs alive
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels. Ali Smith
book argument proof
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
book reading believe
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
book writing television
We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore. Alexander Kluge
book hockey hope tournament weeks youth
We'll have one two weeks in August. We hope to book a youth hockey tournament here.
book chapter effective habits highly laws lead leadership people stand
We'll take a book like The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership or The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and read a chapter or two that week. Then I stand up and lead the discussion.
book books-and-reading fair hard honest house sides tried white
What I tried to do is write an honest book, and I think it is a fair book that showed all sides of the Clintons, of the White House at that time, and not really try to make too many hard judgments, ... This Week. George Stephanopoulos
book customers flights hold later trying
What we're trying to do is hold flights and book customers on later flights.
book years world
A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years. Alexander Payne
book years dying
Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
book mean writing
I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour. Alexander McCall Smith
book writing two
If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write and then write again. persist. And never be put off or discouraged. You can do it!
book focus plot
I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
book perspective world
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.