Quotes about boo
book soul mules
The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule. Mark Helprin
book writing people
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. Mark Haddon
book simple layers
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
book kids littles
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
book thinking people
I think good books have to make a few people angry.
book taken darkness
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
book writing done
If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.
book kids imperfection
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
book differences world
Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder,
book writing shoes
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.
book mean brave
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
book writing ideas
Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.
book reading literature
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
book mean i-can
...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything
book reading animal
If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers who care deeply about the animals whose parts they sell, the customers who buy their meats, and the pleasures of eating, this book has much to teach. It’s an instant classic, making it clear why meat is part of the food revolution. I see it as the new Bible of meat aficionados and worth reading by all food lovers, meat-eating and not. Marion Nestle
book catholic different
Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith. Maria Monk
book written has-beens
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning. Marguerite Young
book mean writing
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
book wrestling soul
The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will open up the meaning of this book.' There is only one way really to understand the Word, and that is through wrestling with the circumstances and happenings of life. Oswald Chambers
book reading men
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
book levels should
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.
boots
Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good, Paul Scholes
book taught lectures
I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets. Paul Samuelson
book writing people
People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write. Paul Gray
book saws
I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it. Paul Harding
book research tangible
I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile. Paul Allen
book fiction pieces
You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions. Paul Auster
book taken years
I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.
book sunset writing
I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I'm writing long sentences now, something I didn't use to do. I had some kind of breakthrough, five or six years ago, in Invisible, and in Sunset Park after that. I discovered a new way to write sentences. And I find it exhilarating.
book paris style
Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style for communicating what the sensation of looking at a film would be, whereas the screenplays I wrote in Paris were actual blueprints for how to do the film, with every gesture, every little movement noted in exhaustive detail.
book punishment fever
The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.
book thinking phrases
There are certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of thinking up these formulations. It's only in the heat of composition that these things occur to you.
book character writing
When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last sentence in mind. But, no book I've ever written has ever ended the way I thought it would. Characters disappear, others come forward. Once you start writing, everything changes.