Quotes about boo
book thinking people
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores. Jean M. Auel
book language international
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies. Jean-Jacques Annaud
book london modern
When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.' James Buchan
book thinking people
Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books. James A. Michener
book self differences
Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.
book people wish
Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.
book world wonder
I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world. James A. Baldwin
book thinking rocks
Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.
book dark voyages
You go into a book and you're in the dark, really. You go in with a certain fear and trembling. You know one thing. You know you will not be the same person when this voyage is over. But you don't know what's going to happen to you between getting on the boat and stepping off.
book reading hands
I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.
book voice
God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.
book writing people
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
book kids comic-book
I'm a huge comic book fan - me and the kids. Jada Pinkett Smith
book party nerd
Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party. Jacqueline Emerson
book interesting childhood
I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her childhood. Jacqueline Wilson
book numbers people
A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to know it's there. You only get to be number one when the public knows about you. Jacqueline Susann
book riches
One always has riches when one has a book to read. Jacqueline Winspear
book humble perspective
As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
book reflection men
To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection. Jackie Kennedy
book done wonderful
If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.
book editors publishing
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
book reading literacy
Love of books is the best of all.
book writing done
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. Jack Vance
book want individual
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
book influence enormous
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
book fairy-tale tales
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.
book successful film
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. Christopher Hampton
book film ifs
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
book spirit proust
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
book differences enormous
There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.
book writing people
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes. Christopher Isherwood
book knows
I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.
book turns
I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn. George Harrison