Quotes about boo
book mean writing
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical. Janet Fitch
book flaws predictable
A book's flaws make it less predictable.
book want cry
If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books. Janet Evanovich
book successful thinking
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
book graphic-novels novel
The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.
book writing years
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.
book shopping people
I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.
book writing romance
By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.
book kids thinking
Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. I think there's something cathartic about having kids live through their fears through a book or any kind of story. Jane Levy
book dark secret
The book that I wrote is called Dark Money, and it's about secret spending that is very hard to follow. [George] Soros's whole thing is about government transparency, so he spends very much in the open, and the same with [Tom] Steyer. Jane Mayer
book beer silence
Your very silence shows you agree. Euripides
book writing house
The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself. Etel Adnan
book reading cutting
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense. Ethan Coen
book sleep technology
I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable. Ethan Zuckerman
book character unique
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation. Etgar Keret
book eggs important
You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.
book men interesting
At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men. Ernest Thompson Seton
book rights letters
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. Ernestine Rose
book rights letters
Do you tell me that the Bible is against our rights? Then I say that our claims do not rest upon a book written no one knows when, or by whom. Do you tell me what Paul or Peter says on the subject? Then again I reply that our claims do not rest on the opinions of any one, not even on those of Paul and Peter, . . . Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
book unnecessary thunderbolts
When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen. Ernest Bramah
book life-is-too-short life-is
Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best. Ernest Dimnet
book landscape consciousness
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
book character people
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. Ernest Cline
book hands people
It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.
book talking cities
I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people. Erin Cummings
book teaching writing
This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit. Erin Morgenstern
book writing order
I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
book pieces stories
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.
book reading writing
The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.
book jealous careers
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous of their autonomy, sensitive to the needs of writers and to the diverse interests of readers. If money were their primary goal, these people would probably have chosen other careers. Jason Epstein
book taken hands
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.
book heart soul
A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul. Jason Ellis
book character different
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book. Cassandra Clare