Quotes about boo
book people want
Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them. Maria Mitchell
book believe people
How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.
book writing exercise
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
book writing moments
When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at that moment in my life. Maria Semple
book rude might
Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.
book writing blood
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write. Paul Thomas Anderson
book school bad-day
My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the 'Bad Day at Black Rock' laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
book reading pages
One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours. Paul Theroux
book years two
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.
book writing marketing
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.
book reading writing
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.
book slim volume
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
book people threatened
People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.
book reading people
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.
book order people
Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you.
book mean night
The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book. Paul Kane
book writing creative
Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.
book needs digital
The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for. Paul Krugman
bookstores online said
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.
book men names
Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself. Paul de Man
book math physics
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. Paul Dirac
book character cartoon
Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action. Patrick Warburton
book writing people
I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived. Patrick Duffy
book house insane
You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house. Patrick Dempsey
book issues mirrors
In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive. John Scott
book way different
I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.
book looks kind
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop. John Sandford
book writing years
Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.
book firsts verdict
My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced. John Searles
book reading commitment
When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions of the book. As the author, I'm impressed with Audible's commitment to my narrative -- and I'm geeking out that both Wil and Amber are reading my book. This is fantastic. John Scalzi
book want done
The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.
book acting agents
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book. John Sayles
book writing people
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.