Quotes about boo
book giving people
All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala. Lynne Truss
book hands errors
Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.
book journey voice
We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.
book men ideas
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it. Lysander Spooner
book apples fire
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. Lucy Maud Montgomery
book names shame
Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
book drunkards
I am simply a book drunkard.
book revelations book-of-revelation
There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
book writing temptation
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
book blessing would-be
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.
book sleep cereal
As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine. Louis Tomlinson
book character two
You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen. Louisa May Alcott
book good-company company
Books are always good company if you have the right sort.
book thinking people
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
book library bliss
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
book castles delight
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
book reading learning
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
book good-friend select
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
book clouds air
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
book soul-and-body good-company
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
book heart joy
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.
book writing thinking
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.
book missing grace
Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?! John Green
book character thinking
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.
book names museums
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.
book library unbearable
This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.
book algorithms good-book
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
book thinking way
When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.
book ladders companion
Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
book reader
Books belong to their readers.
book helping feels
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
book learning oil
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? John Gay
book flames joy
Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.