Quotes about boo
book writing years
When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced. Frank Herbert
book giving entertainment
There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.
book numbers enormous
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive. George Hamilton
book arrogance mind
In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon them to beware of the intemperate arrogance which attributes failure to a degraded condition of the public mind. The instinct which leads the world to worship success is not dangerous. The book which succeeds accomplishes its aim. The book which fails may have many excellencies, but they must have been misdirected. George Henry Lewes
book pages each-day
But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning. George H. W. Bush
book heart eye
In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. "And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion," he wrote. Harold B. Lee
book reading matter
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. Harold Bloom
book thinking hands
This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs. Haile Gebrselassie
book open-minded life-experience
If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructores but form the very life experience itself. Haile Selassie
book media church
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them? Gunter Grass
book sacred
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
book taken air
When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it. Graham Swift
book mean thinking
I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.
book research biographies
I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies. Jim C. Hines
book writing editors
An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.
book opportunity black
We've all got a black book of missed opportunities. Jim Broadbent
book ideas trying
When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with. Jim Butcher
book phones sight
Never let it be said that Harry Dresden is afraid of a dried, dead bug. Creepy or not, I wasn't going to let it ruin my concentration. So I scooped it up with the corner of the phone book and popped it into the middle drawer of my desk. Out of sight, out of mind. So I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.
book character skills
The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.
book reading mean
I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.
book tired writing
When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.
book laughing stories
Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible. Jessica Brown Findlay
book kids parent
A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs. Jessica Alba
book kids opinion
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion. Jesse Ventura
book ocean men
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. H. P. Lovecraft
book writing solitary-life
Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.
book savages letters
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage. H. G. Wells
book writing men
I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.
book men elderly
In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.
book gains needs
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book. George Herbert
book reading clock
To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author. Jean de la Bruyere
book needs crafts
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
book reading inspire
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.